Your client, who is 4 years old, has the cognitive ability to think about the future and start to plan what the client will be doing later in the day or in a few days,
instead of concentrating on the here and now. Your client is in which phase of cognitive development according to Jean Piaget?
1. preoperational phase
2. accommodation
3. phase of intuitive thought
4. concrete phase
ANS: 3
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