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The characteristics of preoperational thinking will be discussed in the next several chapters of Part I and will cover the rest of our major area of interest, namely, the years from 2 to 5. The young preoperational child shows signs of thinking on his own. These mental activities, or “operations,” as Piaget refers to them, are not logical (in fact, they are prelogicai!) and are restricted to how things look and appear.
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Jean Piaget, Six Psychological Studies (New York: Random House, 1967), p. 18.
Herbert Ginsburg and Sylvia Opper, Piaget’s Theory of Intellectual Development: An Introduction (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969), p. 84.
B. Wadsworth, Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development (New York: Longman, 1971), p. 76.
Mary Ann Spencer Pulaski, Understanding Piaget (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1979), p. 43.
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Maffei, A.C., Hauck, T.M. (1992). The Years from Two to Five. In: Purposeful Play with Your Preschooler. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6385-7_3
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