STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT OF JEAN PIAGET

Preoperational stage

The preoperative stage is the second of four stages. Follow the sensory motor stage and takes place approximately between 2 and 7 years old.

In the transition from this period, the child discovers that some things can take the place of others. Children's thinking is no longer subject to external actions, begin to internalize.

Internal representations provide more mobility vehicle for increasing intelligence

Internal representation forms that emerge simultaneously at the beginning of this period are: imitation, symbolic play, the mental image and rapid development of spoken language.

Despite major advances in symbolic functioning, child's ability to think logically is marked with a certain inflexibility, it is highly egocentric

Language

The emergence of language to a period between 5 and 7 years, Piaget studied the relationship between egocentric thought and language.

In this period a marked tendency for the children to work alone, and that it corresponded to a specific type of activity with three main sets of verbal behaviors: repetition or echolalia, the monologue and the collective monologue.

At 4 years ago, the game becomes increasingly complex using and playing with words, imitating and representing people and animals, playing with the real and imaginary.

Representations that the child is doing in the game to evoke the lived, imitated and learned, then the domain of language are spoken while actuated. And the account in the game and play count and can anticipate telling them and telling them the facts may make the facts.

With the Symbolic game he develops various combinations of actions, ideas and words and gradually enriching experience not only their physical skills, but also with multiple vocal games, phrases, descriptions and stories produced at will.