Shanda has been asked to babysit her almost three-year-old nephew. Based on Piaget’s theory, how can she tell whether he has moved into the preoperational stage of development?
What will be an ideal response?
Infants first use their own body movements to create schemas. Then they see how they can affect the environment, and explore and solve problems. When they enter the preoperational stage, usually in the third year of life, they can think about things that are not actually there. They use the sensory and motor skills they learned earlier to represent things symbolically. Shanda can see if her nephew uses symbolic representations for things, such as imagining that the box he is in is a car driving over a bridge.
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