Cognitive Development

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What are the three major stages of cognitive development?

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Pre-operational, Concrete operational, and Formal operational.

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Who outlined the stages of cognitive development?

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Jean Piaget

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Preoperational occurs between what ages?

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2 and 7

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defining characteristics of preoperational

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inquisitiveness and mental representations for imagined objects

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Subcategories of preoperational

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symbolic function and intuitive thought

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mental representation for imagination

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symbolic function

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What takes place between the ages of two and four?

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symbolic function

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When a child pretends she is having tea and holds her invisible tea cup is an example of

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symbolic function

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egocentrism is present during what stage of cognitive development

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preoperational

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is the tendency to focus on oneself and to think only from one's own perspective

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Egocentrism