Pre-Operational Stage

From AGIRI.org

The stage of development of a Mind that involves the ability to solve fairly complex problems At this stage we see the formation of mental representations, mostly poorly organized and un-abstracted, building mainly on intuitive rather than logical thinking. Word-object and image-object associations become systematic rather than occasional. Simple syntax is mastered, including an understanding of subject-argument relationships. One of the crucial learning achievements here is “object permanence”--infants learn that objects persist even when not observed. However, a number of cognitive failings persist with respect to reasoning about logical operations, and abstracting the effects of intuitive actions to an abstract theory of operations.