Piagets - Pre-operational Stage Flashcards

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Egocentrism

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Children typically are unable to or have difficulty in seeing things from another persons perspective.

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Pre-operational Stage

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Children become increasingly able to internally represent events (that is, think about and imagine things in their own mind.)

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Animism

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The belief that everything which exists has some kind of consciousness or awareness.

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Transformation

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Understanding that something can change from one state to another.

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Centration

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A pre-operational child can focus on only one quality or feature of an object at a time.

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Reversibility

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The ability to follow a line of reasoning back to its original starting point.

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