What differences did Jean Piaget observe in children's thinking between the preoperational stage and the concrete operations stage?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
• According to Piaget, in the preoperational stage, children lack the cognitive abilities necessary for understanding abstract principles, conservation, and cause and effect. Children are egocentric or unable to imagine another's point of view.
• By the concrete operations stage, Piaget argued they still cannot think abstractly, but they are less egocentric and come to understand the principles of conservation and cause and effect.
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