FAMR 230 Lecture 7: FAMR 230 Week 7
17 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
3 double spaced assignments (2 pages) extra credit. Piaget referred to period from 2 to 7 years of age as preoperational stage: children can now think about things before taking any action and. Example of children"s progress is deferred imitation: they are able to imitate someone"s actions long after seen or heard. Emergence and growth of language are believed to be tied to children"s new major achievement is children"s increasing capacity to represent external. Yet, children are grounded in the (cid:498)here and now(cid:499: limitations of preoperational stage: world internally. abilities. Egocentrism: take other view points into account. Conservation: understand that quantity is unrelated to physical appearances of objects. Centration: focus on several aspects of problem at same time. Irreversibility: reverse series of operations to original state. Another characteristic is animism or projection of human qualities onto inanimate objects. Language acquisition occurs at amazing rate from ages 2-6.
