ren acquire language and learn that they can manipulate these symbols that represent the environment" (Rice 35). Jean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist that outlined the "four stages of cognitive development: the sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years), the preoperational stage (2 to 7 years), the concrete operational stage (7 to 11 years) and the formal operational stage (11 years and up)" (Rice 160).
             First I noticed that children exhibit abstract thinking, which is when a child is not able to understand time, money, distance, right or left, etc. I observed this type of thinking when I was at the Child Development Centre. There were two girls and two boys in a corner with a Holland College student. The student was asking the children want their favourite month was, all the children replied with a holiday not an actual month. I also see this happening with my daughter, I will ask her when h
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