atement is ridiculous. I don’t think preschoolers feel guilt about things unless they are put down. If they do something wrong and they know its wrong I don’t think that there mind process’ fast enough for them to feel it. Now if you point it out to them and ask them why they did it and make them feel guilty for it then they do. They are innocent children who know what’s right and wrong and intentionally do things wrong, but I don’t think they feel guilt about it. The only reason they know that its wrong is because they’ve been told not to do it and it’s not common place to do it. They don’t do things to hurt other people; therefore, I don’t think they can’t feel guilt about it.Following the preoperational stage in Piaget’s table is the concrete operational stage. “Thinking logically about concrete events; grasping concrete analogies and performing arithmetical operations.” (Myers, D.G. 2000). When children enter this stage of development I think it’s very noticeable, because they feel good about themselves. There are so many more things they can figure out then they ever used to before. Learning to understand so many things outside of school. I remember when I understood that if you threw a basketball at the backboard it would angle into the hoop. I used this knowledge for playing hockey. I would shoot the puck off the boards on one side of a person and then go around them on the other side. What Piaget said ties in very tightly with what Erikson said “Children learn the pleasure of applying themselves to tasks, or they feel inferior.” (Myers, D.G. 2000). That is a great way of putting it. I remember in school how the whole class would race to see who could get things done first and compete over who could get the better grade. We learned to do new things and think in new ways. The next stage Piaget isolated is the formal oper...
