Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) / quote 51 of 70

The egocentric preoperational child

According to Piaget, after the sensorimotor stage, children’s cognitive development enters the preoperational stage, which extends from the second year of life through age seven or eight. The preoperational stage is when children’s thinking differs most from adult thought patterns. Piaget said that during the preoperational stage, children are egocentric (think of everything only as it relates to them), can focus on only one characteristic of a thing or a person at a time (for example, take words at their exact meaning), gather information from what they experience rather than from what they are told, and overgeneralize from their experience.

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