Question

A child demonstrates increasing language skills and an understanding of symbols. Creative play and the use of imagination is an important activity in the child's life. Based upon these characteristics and according to Jean Piaget's theory, what stage of cognitive development is the child demonstrating?

A) Preoperational stage
B) Sensorimotor stage
C) Concrete operational stage
D) Formal operational stage

Answer 1

A) Preoperational stage is the correct answer

Step-by-step explanation:

Preoperational stage: It is a second of a cognitive development that starts at the age of around two.which children begin to talk and it last at the age of approximately seven.

The features of the preoperational stage are:

• children develop imagination.

• They develop a memory that helps them to know the difference in the past and future.

• concentration.

• Animism

• play.

• Artificialism.

• Symbolic thinking.

• Irreversibility