hild cannot distinguish between the large and the small therefore the child would just put all the red bricks together. Piaget called this, 'Syncretic Thinking', putting objects together because of similarities i.e. colour even if the objects are of a different shape or size, four balls of different colours would not be conceived as different colours by a child they would just be seen as four balls as this is their similarity.
             At the age of 4-7 the child reaches the, 'Intuitive', stage, at this stage the child has some concept of differences i.e. the child can distinguish between the size and colour of different coloured bricks. However the child is still what Piaget called, 'Egocentric', unable to see things from another's point of view.
             'One amusing example (Phillips, 1996) is of a four year old boy who is asked 'Do you have a brother?' to which he replies 'Yes'. Then he is asked 'What's his name?' to which he replies 'Jim'. Finally in response to the q
             ...