This PowerPoint describes Jean Piaget's Preoperational Stage.

1. Jean Piaget Jennifer Funk Second Stage: Preoperational Stage

2. Piaget’s Second Stage:Preoperational 2 – 7 years old Preschool & Early Elementary Stage

3. Symbolic Thinking Give labels to objects in everyday life Develop schemes for recognizing new objects Example: Cat and Dog

4. Semiotic Function The ability to use symbols – language, pictures, signs, or gestures – to present actions or objects mentally (or) the ability to think about objects not present

5. Symbolic Play Children assimilate a concrete object with a scheme which already exists for a familiar object Ex. Pretending

6. Egocentrism Children are not able to see other perspectives other than their own Collective Monologue – form of speech in which children in a group talk but do not really interact or communicate

7. Illogical Thinking Lack of conservation – inability to realize when objects change in form they do not necessarily change in amount Irreversibility – inability to realize that certain processes can be undone or reversed Single Classification – inability to understand that one object can be classified in more than one way Transductive reasoning – seeing similarities between two or more concrete objects or events when there is actually no relationship

8. Activity: The 3 Mountain Problem

9. Thank you!