Correct Answer - Option 3 : Concrete Operational Stage
Piaget explained that children progress through four stages and in the same order. The Four Stages of Cognitive Development are as follows:-
- The Sensorimotor Stage (0 to 2yrs)
- The Preoperational Stage (2 to 7)
- The Concrete Operational Stage (7 to 12)
- The Formal Operational Stage (12 to adulthood)
The concrete operational stage is the third stage in Piaget's theory of Cognitive Development.
- In this stage, Children gain the abilities of conservation of number, area, volume, and orientation.
- Children can conserve numbers (age 6), mass (age 7), and weight (age 9). Conservation is the understanding that something stays the same in quantity even when its appearance changes.
- Reversibility, seriation, transitivity also developed in this stage.
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Seriation refers to the ability to understand that even if objects are placed at distant positions, their number remains the same.
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Ability to conserve is one of the major accomplishments of the concrete operational stage.
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Conservation is the understanding that a child develops to know that a thing remains the same even if it changes in shape or appearance.
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Hypothetic - Deductive Reasoning ⇒ Formal Operational Stage
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Secondary Circular Reactions ⇒ Sensorimotor Stage
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Animistic Thinking ⇒ Pre-Operational Stage
Hence, it becomes clear that the ability of 'Seriation' is the characteristic of the Concrete Operational Stage.