5. Preoperational stage

What is one of the hallmarks of the preoperational stage?

What types of play arise and are connected to the preoperational stage?

• symbolic play

• functional play

• constructive play

• pretend play

Children in the preoperational stage are able to perform operations.

• true

• false

What is the first stage of the two substages of the preoperational stage that occurs during ages 2-4?

What is the second substage that occurs between the ages 4-7?

Animism and egocentrism are part of this substage.

Primitive reasoning and wanting to know the answers to many things is part of this substage.

Not being able to see things from other’s perspectives.

Example: A child wants a doll for Christmas. They are asked what their mother would like for Christmas and the child says “a doll”.

I understand that you have a different mental representation than mine. The opposite of ecogcentrism.

I understand that others have different thoughts, beliefs, emotions to me.

A child’s ability to understand that a certain quantity of something remains the same even if its appearance changes.

Not fully developed at the preoperational stage.