stage 2: preoccupational(2-7 years)

• Some rudimentary logic but cannot be used to understand how the world works. For example animism which is the belief that inanimate objects have feelings
• Conservation- Lack of conservation means that they fail to understand despite changes in outward appearance, the quantity stays the same
• Egocentrism: This is when the child is unable to see from the perspective of others because they can only think from their own perspective
• Piaget three mountains experiment, he asked children to view a model of three mountains from different angles and asked to pick the view that a doll will see .Children in this stage were unable to see this perspective of the doll and how the doll might have viewed three mountains and ended up always picking their own view
• Unable to do class inclusion: Able to place objects into categories, Struggle to understand that categories can have further subsets and objects can belong to more than one class eg, Cats and dogs can be grouped together and can be in a further subset of animals