Question

Five-year-old Stefan uses symbols to represent sensorimotor discoveries. However, his thinking lacks logic. Stefan is in Piaget's __________ stage of development.

Answer 1

Answer:

Pre-operational stage

Explanation:

Pre-operational is the second stage of cognitive development. cognitive development in children was given by Piaget. In this stage children are thinking at the level of symbolic level but not using concrete or abstract thinking. In this stage, children focus on centration in which they think about only one aspect of the situation. They have difficulties in different aspects of the situation at the same time. At this stage children, thinking and thought are basically ecocentric. It means that cannot focus on another person's viewpoints. Children think as whatever he does feel so, me the person feel. The children basically engaged in playing during this stage. Children usually used symbolical representation. They pretend robe people they are not and believe in animism such as toys, teddy are real human intentions and feelings.