GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
PIAGET
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The understanding that an object exists. Occurs between 2-7 years old.
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The ability to use deductive reasoning. Occurs between 7-11 years old.
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The ability to use abstract thoughts. Occurs 11+ years old.
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The inability to differentiate between oneself and another. Occurs between 2-7 years old.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Egocentrism. Egocentrism refers to the child’s inability to see a situation from another person’s point of view. The egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does. In the developmental theory of Jean Piaget, this is a feature of the preoperational child.
Detailed explanation-2: -The preoperational stage occurs from 2 to 6 years of age, and is the secondstage in Piaget’s stages of cognitive development. Throughout most of the preoperational stage, a child’s thinking isself-centered, or egocentric.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is egocentric thinking in young children? Egocentric thinking is the normal tendency for a young child to see everything that happens as it relates to them. This is not selfishness. Young children are unable to understand different points of view.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sensorimotor stage: Birth to 2 years. Preoperational stage: Ages 2 to 7. Concrete operational stage: Ages 7 to 11. Formal operational stage: Ages 12 and up.
Detailed explanation-5: -Adolescent egocentrism is a characteristic of adolescent thinking that leads young people (ages 10 to 13) to focus on themselves to the exclusion of others. Early childhood egocentrism is children’s tendency to think about the world entirely from their own personal perspective.