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Piaget stages
Piagetian Stages of Cognitive Development
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/01/2012
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Sensorimotor
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Children develop the concept of object permanence and the ability to form mental representations. Birth to age 2.
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Preoperational
 Definition
Children's thought is egocentric; they lack the concept of conversation and the ability to decenter. Age 2 to 7.
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Concrete Operations
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Children can decenter; they acquire the concept of conversion; but they cannot reason abstractly or test hypotheses systematically. Age 7 to 11.
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Formal Operations
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Children begin to reason abstractly.
Starts at age 11 or 12
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