According to Piaget's stages of cognitive development, Om is in the pre-operational stage; he can represent things with words but lacks logical reasoning and understand pretend play and exhibits egocentrism and language development. ... Egocentrism in Piaget's theory is the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view (Myer 146).Om exhibits this because he is only able to think of the amount of M&M's in his hand but is unable to realize that I has the same number of pennies since she gave him one M&M for each penny (Myer 146). ... In Piaget&#...

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