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    The document describes 14 examples of cognitive abilities in children and assigns each one to a stage of cognitive development proposed by Piaget. It identifies the earliest stage for each example and names the cognitive concept demonstrated when applicable. The examples range from sensorimotor stage behaviors like object permanence to formal operations stage abilities like abstract thinking.

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    The document describes 14 examples of cognitive abilities in children and assigns each one to a stage of cognitive development proposed by Piaget. It identifies the earliest stage for each example and names the cognitive concept demonstrated when applicable. The examples range from sensorimotor stage behaviors like object permanence to formal operations stage abilities like abstract thinking.

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    Review Piaget’s stages and identify the earliest stage in which a child might exhibit each of the

    following. When possible, name the concept that is described by each.

    Stage Concept
    1. A child can explain that 3 x 2 represents Concrete Operations N/A
    three sets of two. Stage
    2. A child doesn’t sneak a cookie when his Preoperational Stage Egocentrism
    mom outside because he thinks that she can
    see what he sees.
    3. A child is asked to add 3 and 2. Using his Preoperational Stage Conservation
    fingers, he counts and answers “5”. Asked to
    then add 2 + 3, the child uses his fingers
    again to get the same answer.
    4. A child is given a cardboard box and Preoperational Stage Symbolic Thinking
    pretends that it is a train.
    5. A child is given a cardboard box and she Sensorimotor Stage N/A
    explores it by opening and closing the flaps.
    6. A child proposes that maybe the color that Formal Operations Abstract Thinking
    you call “red” is the color that, if he looked Stage
    with your brain, he would call “yellow”.
    7. A child pushes a button on a toy and it Sensorimotor Stage N/A
    makes a sound. He repeats this over and
    over and over and over….
    8. A child tells his friend, “I’ve got the best joke. Formal Operations N/A
    What can leap higher than a tall building?” “ Stage
    Anything, tall buildings can’t leap!”. The
    child’s understanding of the two
    interpretations of the question indicate that
    he has reached this stage.
    9. A child uses his understanding of molecular Formal Operations N/A
    movement to predict how a gas would Stage
    behave in different conditions.
    10. A mother takes a toy from a child and puts it Sensorimotor Stage Object
    under a blanket. The child does NOT look for Permanence
    it.
    11. Presented with a picture of 4 cats and 6 Concrete Operations Concrete
    dogs, a child is asked, which are there more Stage Concepts
    of: cats or animals? The child correctly
    responds, “animals”.
    12. Upon overhearing his mother mention that it Preoperational Stage N/A
    is difficult for a woman to “make it to the top
    of a large corporation”, the child asks why
    she can’t just take the elevator.
    13. Upon seeing his Aunt Sally who lives out-of- Sensorimotor Stage N/A
    town, the child cries.
    14. When given one cookie for snack, the child Preoperational Stage Conservation
    begs for more. Her mother breaks the cookie
    into two pieces and the child is happy.

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