Jean Piaget
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In the context of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, mental processes such as 'decentration' and 'lack of reversibility' are the most prominent and specific characteristics of which stage of a child's cognitive maturity?
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According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, the main limitations of the 'preoperational stage' (roughly 2 to 7 years) include 'irreversibility' (the inability to mentally reverse an action) and 'centration' (focusing on only one aspect of an object, such as height or width). Children in this stage lack 'decentration', which develops during the concrete operational stage.
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