“ At a particular stage children begin to use primitive reasoning and want to know the answer of all sorts of questions.” Piaget called this “intuitive”. As per Piaget, which of the following stage, he means ?

Correct option is B

Intuitive thinking is a concept applicable to the last half of the preoperational stage, from 4 – 7 years. In this stage children are thinking more logically than they were before hand although the logic they follow is a little faulty. A good example of this is that the children in this period of development cannot yet conserve. There ideas relating to class membership are also blossoming quite well, however, they have trouble understanding that classes can themselves belong to a bigger organisation. If given a picture of oranges and apples in which there were 7 apples and only 3 oranges, they preoperational child in the second stage will say that there are more apples than there are pieces of fruit, even though this number equals 10.