age 2 to 7
Piaget believed that the _______ fit entirely in a single stage of cognitive development called ___________ stage.
Answer:
preschool years; preoperational
- symbolic thinking
-key aspect-
-Symbolic function -the ability to use symbols, words or an objet to represent something (directly related to language )
-According to Piaget, what is the key aspect of preoperational stage? symbolic function
-Centration-concerning on one limited aspect of a stimulus
-Conservation- knowledge that quantity is unrelated to the arrangement and physical appearances of objects
Johnny is a 4-year-old youngster who is having lunch with his mother and sister. When his mother pours the milk that is left in the carton into the children's glasses, she finds that there isn't enough to fill both glasses, so she carefully pours half of the milk in the shorter, fatter glass into a thin, taller glass in front of Johnny's sister. Immediately, Johnny
complains that his sister got more milk than he did, and even when his mother tries to explain that they both got the same amount, Johnny insisted he was right. In this example, Johnny is demonstrating a lack of development in the area - conservation.
-egocentric thought- thinking that does not take into account the view point of others
On Christmas morning, 3-year-old Billy opens one of his gifts from his mother and finds a new sweater. Disappointed that it is not a toy, Billy frowns
and throws the sweater aside in front of his mother with no regard for her feelings. In this example, Billy is demonstrating
egocentric thought.
-If a preschool child thinks largely in an egocentric manner, then from the Piaget's perspective he would say that the child is in the ________ stage.
preoperational
-intuitive thought-reasoning and knowledge - outcomes in fixed patterns
transformation-one state changed into another
If a 4 ½-year-old child is asked to draw
a person, who is first standing upright and then has fallen down, the child is likely to draw the figure in the vertical position, and then the figure lying in the horizontal position, with no other pictures in between to demonstrate the person falling. This child would be demonstrating a lack of
- transformation.