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Which of the following stages are involved when infants “THINK” with their eyes, ears and hands ?1. Concrete operational stage2. Pre-operational stage3. Sensory motor stage4. Formal operational stag

Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Sensory motor stage

Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist proposed widely known perspectives about cognitive development in the stages from birth through the end of adolescence. Jean Piaget's theory focuses on the mental development of a child that moves through four different stages of intellectual development. In Piaget's view, early cognitive development involves processes based upon actions and later progresses to changes in mental operations.

Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development:

Stages of Development

Characteristics

Sensorimotor

(birth to 2 yr)

  • Experiences the world through senses and actions (looking, hearing, touching, mouthing, and grasping)
  • Cognitive development begins with the baby's use of senses and movements
  • Develops object permanence

  Pre-Operational

   (2-7 yr)

  • Learns to use language to represent objects by images and words
  • Classifies objects by a single feature. 
  • Thinking is ego-centric; has difficulty taking in the point of view of others.
  • Develops symbolic thought

Concrete-Operational

(7-11 yr)

  • Thinking logically about concrete events, performing concrete arithmetic operations
  • Achieves conservation of number (age-6), mass (age-7), and weight (age-9)
  • Develops operational thought

  Formal Operational

  (11 yr and above)

  • Potential for more mature moral reasoning
  • Becomes concerned with hypothetical, future, and ideological problems
  • Develops abstract concepts

Hence, it can be concluded that the Sensory Motor stage is associated with when infants "think" with their eyes, ear, and hands.


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