Piaget S Preoperational Stage Images. The preoperational stage occurs roughly between the ages 2 and 7. The concrete operational stage is from ages 7 12.
In the preoperational stage children use symbols to represent words images and ideas which is why children in this stage engage in pretend play a child s arms might become airplane wings as she zooms around the room or a child with a stick. 7 11 years and formal operational stage. Piaget proposed that cognitive development progressed in stages and categorized these stages by children s ages.
Piaget also broke this stage down into a number of different substages.
The concrete operational stage is from ages 7 12. 7 11 years and formal operational stage. Piaget noted that children in this stage do not yet understand concrete logic cannot mentally manipulate information and are unable to take the point of view of other people which he termed egocentrism. In the preoperational stage children use symbols to represent words images and ideas which is why children in this stage engage in pretend play a child s arms might become airplane wings as she zooms around the room or a child with a stick.