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- experiencing the world through senses and actions (looking, touching, mouthing)
- Typical Age Range: Birth - nearly 2 years
- Development Phenomena: object permanence stranger anxiety
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- representing things with words and images but lacking logical reasoning
- Typical Age Range: About 2 - 6 years
- Developmental Phenomena pretend play egocentricism language development
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- thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arthmetical operations
- Typical Age Range: About 7 - 11 years
- Developmental Phenomena conservation mathematical transformations
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- abstract reasoning
- Typical Age Range: About 12 - adulthood
- Developmental Phenomena abstract logic potential for moral reasoning
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