PSYO 2090 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Early Childhood Education, Numeracy, Lev Vygotsky
28 Mar 2014
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Preoperational stage: (2-7 years) - children begin to represent the world with words, images, and drawings. They form stable concepts and begin to reason. Cognitive world dominated by egocentrism and magical beliefs. The term preoperational emphasizes that the child does not yet think in an operational way. Operations: internalized set of actions that allow a child to do mentally what before he or she did physically. Preoperational thought can be divided into 2 substages: the symbolic function substage and the intuitive thought substage. Symbolic function substage: (2-4 years) - the child gains the ability to mentally represent an object that is not present. Egocentrism: the inability to distinguish between one"s own perspective and someone else"s perspective. Animism: belief that inanimate objects have lifelike qualities and are capable of action. Intuitive thought substage: (4-7 years) - when children begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answers to all sorts of questions.
