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PREOPERATIONAL STAGE [1 record]

Record 1 1981-08-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
CONT

With the elaboration of basic schemata, thinking begins to develop, and moves from the preoperational stage (beginning with the symbolic function) to concrete operational thought, when the adolescent is able to think reflectively about the logical operations themselves and use them systematically (...)

CONT

The preoperational stage runs from eighteen months to about seven years of age.

Key term(s)
  • preoperational representation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
CONT

Le développement intellectuel de l'enfant passe, selon Piaget, par cinq étapes bien définies: 1- une période sensori-motrice (...) 2- un stade préopératoire (de deux à quatre ans), dominé par une pensée essentiellement égocentrique et anthropomorphique ("Regarde, Maman, la lune qui me suit"); 3- une époque intuitive (...) 4- un stade des opérations concrètes (...) 5- une période des opérations formelles (...)

Key term(s)
  • niveau préopératoire

Spanish

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