"the second substage of preoperational thought, occurring between approximately four and seven years of age, is characterized by the use of: "

The intuitive thought substage.

Explanation:

This is a part of Jean Piaget's (1896-1980) theory of cognitive development. It is a theory about the development of human intelligence.

Between ages 4 and 7 children become very curious and ask many questions, beginning the use of primitive reasoning. It is called like this because at that stage kids have a vast amount of knowledge but do not know how they acquired it. Characteristics of preoperative thought are centration, conservation, irreversibility, class inclusion and transitive interference.

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