Module 3.3: Cognitive Development

Question 1

Preoperational Development

Answer 1

+ Jean Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development
+ Lasting from ages 2 to 7, characterized by the expansion in the use of symbolic thought
+ Children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings
+ Dominated by egocentrism and magical beliefs
+ Does not yet perform Operations

Question 2

Operations

Answer 2

Reversible mental actions that allow children to do mentally what before they could do only physically)

Question 3

Preoperational Thought

Answer 3

beginning of the ability to reconstruct in thought what has been established in behavior

Question 4

What is Preoperational Thought divided into?

Answer 4

Symbolic Function and Intuitive Thought