Explain the following characteristics of preoperational thought: intuitive thinking, egocentrism, animism, and artificialism. What are two of the main limitations of preoperational thinking?
What will be an ideal response?
Include the following characteristics:
--Intuitive thought is thinking and logic based on personal experience, not a formal system of rules.
--Egocentrism is the child's inability to take another's perspective.
--Animism is the idea that inanimate objects have conscious life and feelings.
--Artificialism is the notion that natural events or objects are controlled by people or superhuman agents.
Include two of the following limitations of preoperational thinking:
--centration
--focus on static endpoints
--lack of understanding of reversibility
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