What is the characteristic of Piagets preoperational stage of cognitive development?
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The Piaget's pre-operational stage It is one of the four stages of cognitive development that children experience from birth until they reach full maturation of their brain. Being the second of the four, this stage appears at approximately 2 years of age and extends around 7 or so. Show
The beginning of Piaget's preoperational stage occurs with the acquisition of speech. Children begin to understand symbols and practice symbolic play, but they are not yet able to understand or apply concrete logic. Studying the four stages of cognitive development helps psychologists to understand more about the maturation of the human brain. In addition, these studies allow psychologists to better understand the phases children go through on their way to becoming adults. This makes it possible to generate the most optimal conditions to promote a development full of well-being. Index
Main characteristicsAlthough the acquisition of spoken language is the most striking characteristic of children who are in this stage of cognitive development, it is not the only one. Some of the most notable are the following: - Lack of understanding of the concrete logic. - Increasing use of symbols, especially in the game. - Inability to understand the other person's point of view (egocentricity). - Centration, or difficulty to focus on more than one aspect of a situation at a time. - Animism, or the belief that all objects are alive or have a purpose. - Irreversibility. Lack of use of concrete logicThe use of logic appears for the first time in the third stage of cognitive development, so that children in the preoperational stage are still unable to use it. This means that a child who is in this stage will not be able to use the deduction to draw conclusions. One of the experiments in which this feature can best be seen is in the conservation of mass. In this experiment, a plasticine ball was shown to several children between 2 and 7 years of age. After asking them to look at its size, the researcher crushed it with his hand, giving it an elongated shape. The children were asked when there was more plasticine, whether on the ball or in the"churro". Without exception, all the children in the preoperational stage answered that there was more plasticine in the churro, since it occupied more space. This experiment was one of the many that were done to demonstrate the lack of logic in the children that are in this stage. Use of symbolsSymbols are objects, words or actions that are used to represent other concepts. The clearest example of a symbol used during the preoperational stage is language, which is nothing more than a set of sounds that are used to refer to other elements of the world. However, children in this stage also use the symbols during the game. It is at these ages when children will use a cardboard box saying it is a spaceship, or they will pose as superheroes or knights. The use of symbols allows them to intuitively understand what surrounds them; In this way, memory and the first explanations of the world also appear for the first time at this stage. EgocentrismOne of the most interesting features of Piaget's preoperational stage is that children who are in it are not able to distinguish between their own thoughts and emotions and those of others. For example, a child who is in this stage and whose favorite food is pizza will believe that it is also everyone's favorite food. Due to this characteristic, children between 2 and 7 years old are tremendously selfish, since they do not understand that their needs can interfere with those of others. On the other hand, they are not able to put themselves in the place of other people either, so if they know something they will think that everyone else knows it too. This characteristic has been demonstrated by several classic experiments in psychology, the best known of them being the experiment of the three mountains. In this experiment the child is placed in front of a table with three mountains, and he is asked what another person will see that moves in different angles. The child will always respond taking into account the view that he himself has, without taking into account the other person. CentrationBecause your brain is still in full development, children in the preoperational phase are not able to focus on several aspects of the same task at the same time. On the contrary, they need to look at just one part of what they are doing each time. This feature becomes even more pronounced in social situations such as gambling. In this type of tasks you can see that children can only think of one idea at a time, quickly changing between them but not being able to keep several at once in their mind. AnimismAnother characteristic characteristic of Piaget's preoperational stage is animism, or the belief that all inert objects are alive or fulfill a specific function. However, unlike the other characteristics of this stage, animism is transformed during the years that lasts and extends to the following stages. - Up to 4 or 5 years old children consider that almost all objects and things are alive and have a specific purpose. - Up to age 7, more or less, children believe that only objects that move are alive. - In the next stage and up to 9 years the child believes that only if an object moves spontaneously is it alive. - Finally, in the last stage of development (between 9 and 12 years), the child realizes that only animals and plants have life. IrreversibilityThe irreversibility is the inability to find the starting point of a situation looking at the final results of it. Children do not develop the reversibility of thought until a later stage of cognitive development. An example of a task that involves reversibility of thought is to give a child a number (for example, 13) and ask him to find two numbers that add up to that result. According to Piaget, children in the preoperational stage would not be able to perform this task. References
Which of the following characteristic is of pre operational stage?Irreversibility of thought is seen during the preoperational stage.
What are 4 characteristics of preoperational thinking that make logic difficult?-Piaget described symbolic thought as characteristic of preoperational thought. He noted four limitations that make logic difficult until about age 6: centration, focus on appearance, static reasoning, and irreversibility.
What are the stages of cognitive development according to Piaget?Sensorimotor stage (0–2 years old) Preoperational stage (2–7 years old) Concrete operational stage (7–11 years old) Formal operational stage (11 years old through adulthood)
What is Piaget's preoperational stage quizlet?What is the pre operational stage? the second stage of Piaget's cognitive development theory in which the child can represent objects mentally however is unable to understand all of the properties of classes and conservation. mental representation. the ability to represent and organize objects and concepts in one's ...
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