Question

Jennifer uses a row of blocks to represent a train and pretends that she is an adult going to the office. However, she cannot yet think logically. It is MOST likely that Jennifer is in the _____ Piagetian stage.

Answer 1

Preoperational stage

Step-by-step explanation:

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist who focused on children from birth to adulthood. In the year 1936 he developed his theory of intellectual or cognitive development. In his theory a child from birth to adulthood experienced behaviors inn four stages:

1) Sensorimotor stage (Birth to 24 months): At this stage, the child exhibit motor activity without use of symbol.

2) Preoperational stage (2 to 7 years): At this stage the child uses objects to represent other things.

3) Concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years): At this stage the child begins to solve problems logically.

4) Formal operational stage (11 years and above)