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Prior to completing this discussion, read chapter 7, Piaget’s enduring contribution to developmental psychology, and On major developments in preschoolers’ imagination. Using Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying an activity and a toy for one of the rooms in your center that promotes cognitive development.  You can choose any of the five rooms for this discussion, but the activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of your chosen age group and must be clearly tied to Piaget’s theory.  So your activity might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, transitivity, or decentering for middle childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence.  Then think about what kinds of educational toys would promote cognitive development in this age group and, again, tie the selected object to a specific milestone.  You must use at least one scholarly source in either your activity or your toy entry.  Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this discussion and how to build the elements of the rooms in your Community Center.