sentence: Children also learn language in the preoperational stage.
sentences_before: The preoperational stage has a large change in representative thought in the mind. In this stage children can use symbols to represent their knowledge.
sentences_after: Piaget did not think language was that important for cognitive development. He thought that children use words to explain the pictures of experience in their mind.
concept_name: child
headings: Child development Child Development Theories Cognitive Developmental Theory Stages of Cognitive Development