Question

Piaget observed that children in the preoperational stage of development often are quite certain that they know the answer to something and are not bothered by the fact that they have not arrived at the answer through logical reasoning but through reliance on previous experiences and guessing. He called this _____.

Answer 1

Answer:

Intuitive thought.

Explanation:

The four developmental stages of Jean Piaget are subdivided into stages according to the development process of children. The second sub-stage of Piaget's preoperational stage is called the Intuitive Thought sub-stage because at this stage learning occurs by intuition of thoughts. Children tend to see one dimension of a problem and based their judgment on it. Their decision is based on their previous knowledge is so certain that they do not bother to rationalize principles of how this knowledge is attained.