Piaget's Preoperational Stage: Characteristics and Development (Ages 2-7) - Prof. Prieto, Apuntes de Derecho

¡Descarga Piaget's Preoperational Stage: Characteristics and Development (Ages 2-7) - Prof. Prieto y más Apuntes en PDF de Derecho solo en Docsity! Chapter 9 Piaget: Preoperational Stage Age 2-7: Preoperational thought’s characteristics More symbolic Inability to engage in operations, can’t mentally reverse actions, lacks conversation skills Egocentric thinking Intuitive thinking rather than logical • Early reasoning abilities • Causation: they have difficulty determining causation. Children use almost magical reasoning as explanation to how things work. • Beliefs about magic (possibility of Santa is something normal for this stage of cognitive development). • Animism: blur the line between living and non-living things. (stuffed dog and real dog). Moving is what determines if something is alive or not (except plants). • Quantity: • Conservation • Learning to count ■ Concept of numbers (addition and subtraction, primitive rule, qualitative rule, quantitative rule. ■ Difficulty to keep trap (one to one principle) ■ Stable order principle ■ Cardinal principle (final number that you get to is the number than you have). ■ Abstraction principle (no need to see to count) ■ Order irrelevant: number won’t change even if they are rearranged. • Reasoning about classes: • Classification: set of object that have certain features in common and therefore are the same • Seriation: • Centration • Transitive inference: • Attention/ Memory • Working Memory • Long term Memory • Attention/Memory skills • Deploying attention • Recognition vs. Free recall children do better on recognition. • Competence vs. Performance • Social Cognition • Egocentrism