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Four-year-old Timothy stands up on his toes and releases his parachute toy, letting the action figure dangle from a parachute drift a few feet from him and collapse on the floor. “I’m going to go up high and make it faster,” he says, imagining standing on the sofa and making the toy sail far into the clouds. He stands on the sofa and releases the toy, which sails a bit further this time. “Next time he’ll jump out of the plane even higher!” Timothy thinks, excitedly. His friend Isaiah calls out, “Let’s make him land on the moon! He can meet space people!”

Timothy and Isaiah can plan, think of solutions to problems, and use language to communicate their ideas. They learn through play by interacting with people and objects around them. From the cognitive-developmental perspective, young children’s thought progresses from the sensory and motor schemes of infancy to more sophisticated representational thought.