This cognitive milestone occurs when a child knows how to look for something where he saw it but will continue to look there even if he saw it go somewhere else. According to the text How Children Develop by Siegler, DeLoachhe, Eisenberg, and Saffran, “Only around their first birthday do infants consistently first search for the current location of the object” (Siegler et al., 137). The latest cognitive development is deferred imitation. This action occurs towards the end of this stage where the child has the ability to imitate the behavior he has seen. This milestone is effectively achieved when the child can regurgitate the observed behavior after some time has passed. The second is the preoperative phase which goes from 2 to 7 years. The cornerstones of this phase are symbolic representation, egocentrism, centering and the concept of conservation. The milestone of symbolic representation is reached when a child can understand that an object of a symbolic nature represents something else. An example of this is when a child can use an object such as a bowl as a pirate boat. Later in this development a child can recognize universal symbols such as the flag as a symbol of