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It focuses on the child development in terms of processing information, reasoning, perceptual skill, language learning. It is the child’s ability to think and understand. Jean Piaget built a theory of cognitive development as to how children think and acquire knowledge from birth to adolescence. The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it. Per him a child learns best when he comes in contact and interact with nature and environment. Piaget gave four stages of development. The first one is the sensorimotor stage (0-2 years). In this stage, the child builds an understanding of self and how things work through his interactions with the environment. The next stage is preoperational (2-7 years). During this stage, a child develops his language and concepts. The child needs concrete physical situations. Objects are classified in simple ways like one single colour. Piaget considered the next stage concrete operational stage (7-11 years) as the turning point in the child’s cognitive development as it marks the beginning of logical thinking and operational thought. The child can work things out internally in their head. The child forms an understanding of concepts like time, space and quantity in abstract. The next stage is the formal operations (11-18 years). Cognition reaches its final form. By this stage, the person no longer requires concrete objects to make rational judgements. He or she is capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning. His or her ability for abstract thinking is very like an adult. During this time, people develop the ability to think about abstract concepts, and logically test hypotheses. Cognitive development is assessed based on three parameters. The first one is knowledge - colours, maths, basic concepts, history etc. The second one is memory – attention, memory strategies. The third one is logical thinking – symbolic thinking, classification, problem solving. Knowledge base includes basic concepts, colour concepts, math concepts, scientific concepts and social study. Memory and logical thinking includes logical reasoning, thinking and problem solving and imagination.