According to Piaget, the Stage of Cognitive Development Between 2

question 334

Multiple Choice

According to Piaget, the stage of cognitive development between 2 and 7 years of age, in which the individual becomes able to use mental representations and language to describe, remember, and reason about the world, though only in an egocentric fashion, is the ________ stage.

• A) formal-operational
• B) preoperational
• C) concrete-operational
• D) sensory-motor

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Definitions:

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of psychiatry developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious psychological processes and conflicts as the root of mental disorders.

Symbolism

The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities in literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, known for his theories of the unconscious mind, mechanisms of repression, and the role of sexual desires.

Id

In Freud’s theory, a term for the most primitive reactions of human personality, consisting of blind striving for immediate biological satisfaction regardless of cost.