Pre-causal thinking was Piaget's description of the reasoning of young children that does not follow procedures of either deductive or inductive reasoning (Cole 327). ... One could argue that Om's moral reasoning is a little above the pre-operational level. ... This observation illustrates Om's moral reasoning. Piaget said that a child's moral reasoning is based on his own cognitive development (Myer 164). Om's moral reasoning can be explained with Kohlberg's stages of morality. ...

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Cognitive development is associated with the changes in an individual's reasoning, thoughts and intelligence reflected by a modification in language referring to memory and concepts. ... A child who successfully passes through the stages progresses from simple sensorimotor responses to the ability to classify and create series of objects and eventually to engage in hypothetical and deductive reasoning. ...

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