Preoperational Stage

Preoperational Stage

This is the second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. Most humans are in this stage between the ages of 2 and 7. Children in this stage are able to remember things they have seen and heard, but they have very little ability to figure out logically why things happen. They rely more on their imagination to explain what they perceive, rather than on logic. [Comparing the brain to a computer: the child can receive input, and store and retrieve the data, but cannot yet process complicated data.] [LJ] {PD}