The development of thought is the human being's own capacity that develops slowly and naturally with maturation when the human being grows and develops. The natural aptitude for thinking indicates to understand himself and the world around, using perception, attention, memory, transfer, etc. But they can be solving the problems that are presented to them daily, remembering, imagining and projecting that it can be stipulated through education, which deals with the mental processes to develop, guide and enhance them.
They use strategies that stimulate understanding and learning so that the information that enters the memory is located in the long term, relating new information such as data or recorded facts, with the previous understanding. Thought is developed by nature and the external action of education.
The development of thought can be natural or stimulated and the Piaget's, which are the stages of natural child development, must be respected. Birth and two years of life are produced by the sensory motor stages that is the common center of all sensations in the brain where the child is unable to internalize ideas. Between 2 and 7 years old, they go through the pre-operational stages. The child is already forming mental images, developing first the oral language and then the written one.
But in the stage of 7 and 11 years, thoughts are concrete from that age that they may be able to abstract that is to separate in the mind the essential qualities of a thing and its physical reality to consider them in isolation.