Correct Answer - Option 3 : Experience with the physical world
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget was the most well-known and influential theorist for cognitive development. Piaget was interested in how children reacted to their environments.
The factors which Piaget considered essential for cognitive development are:-
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Assimilation-It refers to the process by which new objects and events are grasped or incorporated within the scope of existing schemes or structures.
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Accommodation- It is the process through which the existing schemes or structure is modified to meet the resistance to straightforward grasping or assimilation of a new object or event.
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Biological maturity:-The basis of Piaget's classification of cognitive development is maturation. This acts as a biological base for cognitive development. Jackson says that some degree of maturation interacting with experience is necessary for movement into the next stage of cognitive development.
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Physical experience:-It is accepted that there can be no knowledge development without relating objects. within the environment. An individual acquires knowledge not by passively copying objects in the environment but by acting upon them. For example, when the child learns from the perceptual properties of objects, by noting their weight, color of the harness, it is physical experience or first-hand information.
Thus from the above-mentioned points, it is clear that according to Piaget, experience with the physical world plays an important role in influencing development.
