A2: Piaget - Pre-Operational Stage

Question 1

What happens in this stage?

Answer 1

• child continues to add to and create new schemas (concepts)

Question 2

What is the child still dominated by?

Answer 2

• sensory information received and is thus very influenced by the appearance of things ; sight

Question 3

What to children in this stage fail to do?

Answer 3

• they fail to carry out logical operations and show centration

Question 4

What is centration?

Answer 4

• children only focus on 1 aspect of an object at a time

Question 5

How does a child learn here?

Answer 5

• pretend play
• but they still struggle with logic and taking the point of view of other people

Question 6

What is an example of a child being influenced by the appearance of things?

Answer 6

• researcher might take a lump of clay
• divides it into 2 equal pieces
• gives child a choice between the 2 pieces to play with
• one piece is rolled into a compact ball, other is smashed into flat pancake shape
• child will likely choose the flat one because it LOOKS bigger, even though they are both the same size (CONSERVATION)