ABSTRACT
Genetic epistemology is the study of development in children’s thinking and in the kinds of knowledge rendered possible by this development. The problem of how children acquire the ability to think is partly one of establishing the successive ways in which they process sensory information from primary receptors and feedback information consequent upon their own functioning, both physical and mental. The image is there in the sense that the child knows what to expect from moment-to-moment and what are the appropriate things to do. The essential characteristics of realisation fourth phase in children’s thinking, the phase of formal reasoning. When we consider the fourth mode of processing information, the gaps are even wider. There is very little research on the effect of learning on formal reasoning. Once the conservation of objects is recognised, the way is open to learn the stable and differentiating properties of things.
