Piaget’s Preoperational Stage
In Jean Piaget’s analysis of child cognition, a child goes through four stages of development:
- sensorimotor
- preoperational
- concrete operational
- formal operational
Children in the second stage have difficulties with conservation; that is, they can’t accurately differentiate shape, number, and volume. As the video below demonstrates, the preoperational stage is also the most adorable.
P.S.: Apparently I didn’t have a post prepared yesterday! Sorry about that, loyal readers. I am bad at queuing.
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kama said on April 30, 2009 at 8:15 pm:
Your loyal readers remain loyal nonetheless! Thanks for that by the way, and all the other posts. It’s absolutely enjoyable and instructive.
Molly said on March 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm:
We’re going to do this when we babysit Sonny’s kids, right?