cognitive development
Some important cognitive changes occur during preschool, particularly in terms oi mental representation. Whereas infants and toddlers have limited ability to form representa only a world(images, concepts) and hold tions of their preschool posthem in memory, children in sess more of that extraordinary abllity. When asked about past or tuture events, preschoolers(unlike toddlers are able to think about what happened weeks ago or anticipate what has not yet happened. They can create fanciful scenes which a pilot and the other(e g., in one child is runs the control tower coordinating roles and story lines, and by 4 and 5 years old, they do so with an awareness that they are acting out an imaginary idea
(Sobel 2006). They become more efficient thinkers as they start to organize their thoughts into categories, and they show more sophisticated use of symbols through their use of pretend objects in play and drawings for learning and communicating.