Preschool children engage in preoperational thinking. This means that:
a. Children cannot think in terms of operations
b. Children no longer believe in magical powers
c. Children base their reasoning on what is implied
d. Children no longer demonstrate symbolic functioning
A
Children at this age are not able to think in terms of operations or logically relate events to each other. Children believe in magical powers and base their reasoning on what they can see and hear.
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