Piaget's Argumentative Essay

Play is an important activity in a child’s life. During the preschool years, cognitive and linguistic growth starts to occur. In this particular video, her intellectual sophistication in language is more advanced in development compared to the other video of the infant. The 4 year old’s vocabulary growth has progressed to where she ask complex questions like “Can you cut it mom?” Also she talks about imaginary situations like “I’m gonna put it in a pretend oven later.” Jean Piaget suggest that thinking and language are interconnected. Also how language during the preschool years reflect improvement over the type of thinking. She uses creativity and imagination to help her figure out what she can make the playdough with. She describes how she is making cookies and gives each cookie a different shape. The preoperational stage also comes into play with symbolic function. For example, she uses her mental symbol for playdough to represent cookies. Since she is using the ability for symbolic function, she does not need to actually make and cook really cookies to understand the use and basic purpose of how to make cookies. Piaget argues that during the earlier sensorimotor period is where improvements shows and are necessary for language development and cognitive behavior. I noticed how she tries to interact with her mom by asking her to cut around the piece of the playdough like she did
She increased her language development by emphasizing her words for using words like squishy, slimy, roll and squeeze. I could tell that she was in a more organized social play. She used her imagination and pretend play to bake and make cookies. While I was observing her play, I noticed that she was initiating conversation and imagination with her mom. It is really interesting when I hear her talk about her