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All right.
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So this question is asking, in which of pha stages, does the child become capable of abstract reasoning? a, sensory motor, b, pre -operational, c, formal operations, or d, concrete operations? so obviously, this question is really getting at your understanding of pha stages of cognitive development.
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And the stages are sensory motor, pre -operational, concrete operations, and formal operations, respectively.
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And the way i like to remember this is sensory motor always comes first because we know that, that babies, because sensory motor ranges between birth to two years old, is that babies really navigate and try to attempt to understand the world through their senses and through their movement.
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So that's why we have babies always putting stuff in their mouths or trying to grab things.
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Following, we have pre -operational.
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And i remember this because pre -operational always comes before the two operations.
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And that the prefix pre really reminds me of that.
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And the way i distinguish between formal and concrete operations and what comes first is that in concrete, when i think of concrete, i think of like a foundation.
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And before you could have a formal operation, you have to have a foundation.
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Hence, concrete operations comes before formal operations.
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So the way i'm going to go about this is basically try to help you remember what characteristics define each stage.
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And then that hopefully will get us to the right answer...