| A | B |
|---|
| preoperational stage | the second of Piaget's developmental stages in which children have begunto do some mental thinking rather than solving all problems with their physical actions |
| preconceptual substage | a substage of the preoperational stage in which children aged two to four years are developing some concepts |
| intuitive substage | a substage of the preoperational stage in which children cvan solve many problems correctly by imagining how they would act out the solution instead of using logic |
| egocentrism | the belief a person has that everyone thinks in the same way and has the same ideas as he or she does |
| mental images | symbols of objects and past experiences that are stored in the mind |
| internalized | something that only is thought about and not shared with others |
| abstract | words that do not relate to what they rerpresent |
| logical thinking concepts | concepts that are not directly experienced through the senses but are developed through thought |
| classifying | the ability to choose an attribute and group all objects from the set (either mentally or physically) that possess that attribute |
| monologue | talking to oneself as though thinking aloud |
| collective monologue | talking to another person but not listening to what the other person has said |
