The limited experiential background of the children, the hunger for new experiences and the openness to new learnings render the children good hypnotic subjects.
Children are willing to receive ideas and enjoy responding to ideas.
Piaget and Freud have identical beliefs in the intellectual and intra-psychic development of children. Piaget emphasizes conscious mental operations, while Freud emphasizes unconscious processes and motives. Both Piaget and Freud believe that children's biological, emotional and intellectual development passes through several distinctive stages. Piaget divides the major stages of intellectual development of children into four periods. They can think but they cannot reason.