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1. Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, being sure to

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Question

1. Describe Piaget’s sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, being sure to include the terms assimilation and accommodation in your response. What is the major milestone that needs to be achieved at this stage?

2. Describe Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development, and explain what it means to say that children in this stage are egocentric and lack conservation.

3. What critical ability distinguishes children in the concrete vs. formal operational stages in Piaget’s theory of

cognitive development?

Explanation / Answer

Piaget developed a stage theory of intellectual development that included four distinct stages. He divided them on teh basis of age. The stages are as follows: