Years 2-3

Prefers challenging tasks⁴¹

Knows about categorical self (age, sex, physical characteristics) ⁴¹

Attends to story⁴⁵

Plans action, process is more important than finished product³³

Imitates short sequences of occupations⁴³

Attends to more than one stimulus at a time⁴¹

Recognizes familiar labels, signs or book covers⁴¹

Fills in missing word or corrects adult with familiar rhymes, songs or stories⁴¹

Experiments with taking apart and putting together objects⁴¹

Understands that problem solving happens by thinking⁴¹

Attends to amount of objects⁴¹

Looks for casual mechanisms to figure out how things work⁴¹

Relates detailed sequences from past⁴¹

Uses fingers to count and and memory⁴¹

Sings simple songs and rhymes⁴¹

Verbal mediation (talks about problem while working on it) ⁴¹

Tries alternatives⁴¹

Identifies common objects through touch⁵⁰

Both consciously and verbally anticipate the outcome of activities e.g., will even tell themselves “no-no” when about to do something they should not¹⁰²