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    Piaget's theory of cognitive development identified the preoperational stage from ages 2 to 7. During this stage, children exhibit limitations in logical thinking. They struggle with concepts like conservation and lack the ability to take perspectives other than their own. Piaget outlined mistakes characteristic of this age, including failing to understand that changing an object's appearance does not alter its quantity, and attributing human traits to inanimate things. The preoperational stage consists of two sub-stages: symbolic function from ages 2 to 4, and intuitive thought from ages 4 to 7.

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    Piaget's theory of cognitive development identified the preoperational stage from ages 2 to 7. During this stage, children exhibit limitations in logical thinking. They struggle with concepts like conservation and lack the ability to take perspectives other than their own. Piaget outlined mistakes characteristic of this age, including failing to understand that changing an object's appearance does not alter its quantity, and attributing human traits to inanimate things. The preoperational stage consists of two sub-stages: symbolic function from ages 2 to 4, and intuitive thought from ages 4 to 7.

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    Piaget's theory of cognitive development identified the preoperational stage from ages 2 to 7. During this stage, children exhibit limitations in logical thinking. They struggle with concepts like conservation and lack the ability to take perspectives other than their own. Piaget outlined mistakes characteristic of this age, including failing to understand that changing an object's appearance does not alter its quantity, and attributing human traits to inanimate things. The preoperational stage consists of two sub-stages: symbolic function from ages 2 to 4, and intuitive thought from ages 4 to 7.

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    Justin Rohrer

    Developmental Psychology
    Improper diet for developing toddlers
    3/3/14

    Piaget and Preoperational Stage


    Piaget called the age period from 2 to 7 the preoperational stage, in this stage he
    emphasized that children of this age were not yet able to perform mental operations (cognitive
    procedures that follow certain logical rules.) Piaget specified a number of areas of preoperational
    cognitive mistakes that are characteristic of early childhood, including conservation,
    egocentrism, animism, and classification. According to Piaget children in early childhood lack
    the ability to understand conversation or the principle that the amount of a physical substance
    remains the same even if its physical appearance changes. In his best known demonstration of
    this mistake Piaget showed young children two identical glasses holding equal amounts of water
    and asked them if the two amounts of water were equal. They usually answered yes because
    they understood that much, but when Piaget would take the water from the glass and pour it in a
    taller, thinner glass and asked the children the again if the two amounts were equal to which most
    of the children answered no. This meant that the child had failed to recognize that the amount
    of water was the same even though the appearance had changed. Piaget thought the mistakes
    came from two kinds of cognitive deficiencies, centration and reversibility. Centration means
    that young childrens thinking is centered or focused on one noticeable aspect of a cognitive
    problem to the exclusion of other important aspects and reversibility is the ability to reverse an
    action mentally. Another cognitive limitation of the preoperational stage is egocentrism.
    Egocentrism is the inability to distinguish between your own perspective and another persons
    perspective. One aspect of egocentrism is animism, or the tendency to attribute human thoughts
    and feelings to inanimate objects and forces. Piaget said that when children believe that the

    Justin Rohrer
    Developmental Psychology
    Improper diet for developing toddlers
    3/3/14
    thunder is angry and the moon is following them this shows their animistic thinking. It also
    shows their egocentrism, by the way that they are attributing the thoughts and feelings that they
    might have themselves to things that are inanimate. Another thing that preoperational children
    lack is the capacity for classification, meaning that the children have difficulty understanding
    that objects can be simultaneously part of more than one group. Just like with conservation, the
    cognitive limitations of centration and lack of reversibility are at the root of the error. The ages 2
    to 7 are a very long period in a childs cognitive development. So although Piaget called this
    whole span the preoperational stage he also separated it into two sub stages, the symbolic
    function sub stage and the intuitive thought sub stage. The symbolic function sub stage is the first
    of the sub stages lasting from ages 2 to 4. This is when the child first becomes capable of
    representational thought and of using symbols to represent the world. Language is the most
    important indicator of the capacity to think in terms of symbols, because words are symbols.
    Play is another area where symbolic functions are evident early in the preoperational stage. The
    second sub stage is the intuitive thought sub stage and it lasts from ages 4 to 7. During this
    period children become highly curios about the world and often ask the question why?. This
    shows that they have begun to think logically because their questions show that they are
    wondering how one event leads to another. Through the questions they learn about nature and the
    world, but they are unable to explain how they know what they know. This is why the sub stage
    is called intuitive, because they dont know why they know it but just know that they know it.

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