Four-year-old maureen and her friends like to pretend they are mothers. they imagine that their dolls are babies and feed them with fake plastic bottles. at the end of the day, they tuck their dolls into miniature beds and pretend they are taking a nap. how would mead explain the behavior of maureen and her friends?

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Ethen Brock

20 June, 16:15

Four-year-old maureen and her friends like to pretend they are mothers. they imagine that their dolls are babies and feed them with fake plastic bottles. at the end of the day, they tuck their dolls into miniature beds and pretend they are taking a nap. how would mead explain the behavior of maureen and her friends?

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Oswaldo Pratt · Answer 1

Mead would explain the behavior of Maureen and her friends in a way that they are likely to be entering or exhibiting the preoperational stage development. In which, this is being defined as a stage where an individual is likely to assign meaning to a particular or certain object.