Topic > Piaget Biography: A Biography of Cognitive Development

He proudly tells everyone that he has 43 coloring books and counting. Rose is very meticulous about sticking to the lines of the coloring books. One day her babysitter drew Rose a picture, this fascinated Rose because the babysitter didn't need lines to make a beautiful picture, and she made the lines herself. Rose asked her model how she did it and her model told her that if you know the shape of something you can draw it. This is the first subphase of the second Piagetian phase, subphase of the symbolic function. Rose knew what many objects looked like, but she never knew she could draw them herself until someone showed her how. When Rose turned three she was fascinated by rocks. She and her rocks talked to each other all day, but unfortunately all the rocks could do was talk, they couldn't move, breathe or see. Rose didn't understand why her mother and father couldn't hear her rocks when they talked to them. Piaget called this thinking animistic. Rose thought the rocks could talk but in reality she just thought they were talking. At the age of four all Rose did was ask why this and why that, the question she asked most often was why she had to go to bed if she wasn't tired. Most parents call this the “why phase,” but Piaget called it the intuitive thinking subphase. Rose thought that if she wasn't tired she wouldn't have to go to bed