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==== Preoperational stage ==== Piaget believed that children entered a preoperational stage from roughly age 2 until age 7. This stage involves the development of symbolic thought (which manifests in children’s increased ability to ‘play pretend’). This stage involves language acquisition, but also the inability to understand complex logic or to manipulate information.<ref>"Piaget's Preoperational Stage of Cognitive Development | Lifespan Development". courses.lumenlearning.com. Retrieved 2023-10-31.</ref> Subsequent work suggesting that preschoolers were indeed capable of taking others' perspectives into account and reasoning about abstract relationships, including causal relationships marked the demise of this aspect of stage theory as well.<ref>Spelke, E. S. (2022). What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1 (Vol. 1). Oxford University Press.</ref>
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