Question

Piaget suggested that the most important cognitive acquisition of the infancy period of cognitive development is the ability to form mental representations of absent objects-those objects with which the infant is not in direct sensorimotor contact. This ability is called:

Answer 1

Pre-operational stage

Explanation:

The preoperational stage is the 2nd stage of the cognitive-developmental stage of Piaget. This stage carries between the stage of 2 to 7 years. In this stage, the child develops language and it is the hallmark of this stage. At this stage, children are not able to understand the logical meaning of objects. The children are not able to manipulate the information. At this stage, the children are not able to perceive another's viewpoints but they believe in self-perception which is called ego-centrism. Conservation is another technique that is used by children.