Piaget's Preoperational Stage

What ages of preoperational stage placed preschool years into a single stage of cognitive development? From age 2-7 What happen during preoperational stage? Children uses symbolic thinking grows, mental reasoning emerges and the use of concepts increases. Example: Seeing mom's car keys prompts a question.. going to the store mommy? Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More (Symbolic function) According to Piaget's a key aspect of operational thought is: the symbolic logic, ability to use mental symbolic word or an object to stand for or represent something that not physically present. Example: Preschooler can use a mental symbol for a car and they understand that a small toy car is representative of the real thing. (The relation language & Thought) (a). Symbolic function is one of the major preoperational period; the increasingly sophisticated use of language. (b). Advances in languages during preschool years reflect improvements over the type of thinking that the possible during the earlier, sensorimotor. What is centration? the process of concentrating on one limited of a stimulus- typically its superficial elements and ignoring others. These elements come to dominate preschoolers thinking leading to inaccuracy. What is conservation? The knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement physical appearance of the object. Example: Drinking glasses Preoperational children make conservation errors due to: Their tendency toward concentration that prevent them from focusing on the relevant features of the situation. Preoperational children: Focus on the superficial, observable objects, the external elements of problems. They aren't able to consider all available information. During ego centric thoughts: ( b) Thinking that don't take into account of the viewpoints of others. (c) Preschoolers don't understand that others have different perspective. (d) Take two forms: lack of awareness that others see things different physical perspective and failure to realize that others may hold thought, feelings and points of view that differ from others.