Piaget's Preoperational Stage

The ability of preschool age children to think using images, symbols and language is called:

• Schema
• Mental representation
• Concrete operations
• Language development

Young children cannot imagine another person's point of view. This is called:

• Centration
• Sensorimotor reactions
• Egocentrism
• Animistic thinking

The tendency of preoperational children to believe inanimate objects have lifelike qualities.

• Mental representation
• Centration
• Conservation
• Animistic thinking

Focusing on only one feature of a problem.

• Centration
• Decentration
• Piaget's mountain problem
• Conservation

The ability to understand that some physical characteristics remain the same even when the outward appearance changes.

• Preoperational
• Centration
• Reversibility
• Conservation

Which stage of cognitive development describes children between ages 2 and 7?

• Sensorimotor Stage
• Preoperational Stage
• Concrete Operational Stage
• Formal Operational Stage

The ability to mentally go through a series of steps, in reverse direction, back to the starting point.

• Egocentrism
• Hierarchial classification
• Reversibility
• Discovery learning

Mentally organizing objects into classes and subclasses on the basis of similarities and differences.

• Hierarchial Classification
• Sociodramatic organization
• Conservation
• Irreversibility