
pmid: 6915696
_~' "'~~ :~~~-- ~"Hold your horses, Jennifer!" Be- wildered, Jennifer goes to her room, picks up three toy horses and holds r~~~~~~~ e _ j -.them. Five minutes later, Jennifer goes back to the kitchen still holding the horses and meekly asks, "Mom- my, now can I have a cookie?" r. %w~ ~~ > K,A child's thought process and :w~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~(birth to 2 years), preoperational (2 ~;w~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~to 7 years), concrete operations or '"~ : _ ~~~~~~~~~~~school-age (7 to 12 years), and !:.i..:Ag_~~~~~ X ! ~~formal operations, or adolescence :'~v 1 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ing stages, I have found children up to age seven consistently understand * X ~l_/:J~ ~ i - ; ~~words used for preoperational chil- * ~:'~; _ ;:-. > : ; ~~~~dren. However, they do not under- - a -- :':'"?- ~ >: s ~stand many of the words appro- !!~i_. . . i3 ~priate for children in the concrete ?f !.Ax ;~0~~~:~~ . . . . . . . . ~~ _stage, especially when they are sick. :" --1 w_ - 4 ~ ~ ~ -- ~~~. - .:' | ,SHARON L PONTIOUS. RN, PhD, is an asistant 'r:?. ~ ~~~~~~ - '~ -,'~~ ~:::~ _professor at the University of Texas at El
Male, Communication, Psychology, Child, Pediatric Nursing, Thinking, Child Development, Patient Education as Topic, Child, Preschool, Humans, Female, Perception, Child, Language
Male, Communication, Psychology, Child, Pediatric Nursing, Thinking, Child Development, Patient Education as Topic, Child, Preschool, Humans, Female, Perception, Child, Language
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