Correct Answer - Option 1 : sensory motor thinking
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four different stages of mental development. His theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge but also on understanding the nature of intelligence. Piaget believed that children take an active role in the learning process, acting much like little scientists as they perform experiments, make observations, and learn about the world. As kids interact with the world around them, they continually add new knowledge, build upon existing knowledge, and adapt previously held ideas to accommodate new information.
Piaget's stages are:
- Sensorimotor stage: birth to 2 years
- Preoperational stage: ages 2 to 7
- Concrete operational stage: ages 7 to 11
- Formal operational stage: ages 12 and up
Sensorimotor stage or Sensorymotor thinking:- Ages:- Birth to 2 years
- The infant knows the world through their movements and sensations.
- Learn about the world through basic actions such as grasping, looking, and listening.
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The world appears as a spaceless, timeless, objectless unit to the child.
- They are separate beings from the people and objects around them.
- During this earliest stage of cognitive development, infants and toddlers acquire knowledge through sensory experiences and manipulating objects. A child's entire experience at the earliest period of this stage occurs through basic reflexes, senses, and motor responses.
- It is during the sensorimotor stage that children go through a period of dramatic growth and learning. As kids interact with their environment, they are continually making discoveries about how the world works.
Thus, it is concluded that The world appears as a spaceless, timeless, objectless unit to the child in the period of sensory-motor thinking.
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Intuitive thought:- The next sub-stage in Piaget's preoperational cognitive development stage is intuitive thought. Children in this substage of development learn by asking questions such as, "Why?" and "How come?" Piaget labeled this "intuitive thought" because he believed that children at this stage tend to be so certain of their knowledge and understanding that they are unaware of how they gained this knowledge in the first place.
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Concrete operation:- It is the third stage children are still very concrete and literal in their thinking at this point in development, they become much more adept at using logic. The egocentrism of the previous stage begins to disappear as kids become better at thinking about how other people might view a situation.
