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  • Essay / The brain, cognitive development and development...

    Children now experience different phases of cognitive development. Again, Belsky explains: "Preoperative thinking is Piaget's theory, the type of cognition characteristic of children aged two to seven, marked by an inability to step back from one's immediate perceptions and think in a conceptual” (Belsky, 2016, p. 142). At this stage of cognitive thinking, children see the world and believe it as it is; they think what they see is real. But then, once they get closer to preadolescence, they advance into their cognitive stage, Belsky explains: "Concrete operational thinking in Piaget's framework, the type of cognition characteristic of children aged eleven, marked by ability to reason about the world in a more logical, adult way” (Belsky, 2016, p. 142). At this stage of life, the child now has a realistic understanding of the world; they think like an adult. So as the brain develops, the way children develop