DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
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children begin to use logic
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focuses on motor skills
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the adolescent gains ability to formulate complicated verbal arguments
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intense language learning takes place
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Detailed explanation-1: -Preoperational Stage During this stage (toddler through age 7), young children are able to think about things symbolically. Their language use becomes more mature. They also develop memory and imagination, which allows them to understand the difference between past and future, and engage in make-believe.
Detailed explanation-2: -The preoperational stage is a time of rapid language development. Your child acquires new vocabulary and progresses from two-word to adult-like language sentences. Her understanding of words and language improves, and she can communicate better.
Detailed explanation-3: -During preoperational development intelligence, a child evolves from a sensorimotor intelligence to a representational intelligence. In this stage, the child is able to use symbols and language. A drawing, a written word, or a spoken word comes to understand in order to represent a real object.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the preoperational stage, children also become increasingly adept at using symbols, as evidenced by the increase in playing and pretending. 1 For example, a child is able to use an object to represent something else, such as pretending a broom is a horse. Role-playing also becomes important at this age.