"[Jean Piaget] is one of the most influential of living thinkers. His ideas about the development of cognition in children are affecting research, preschool programs, methods of parenting, curriculum planning, and many other areas of psychology and education today (Pulaski, 1980, pg. xiii)." Jean ...

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The main theory of cognitive development was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist interested in the intellectual development of children and concluded that children were not less intelligent than adults, they simply think differently. ...

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