![]() ![]() ![]() For example, he believed that children experience the world through actions, representing things with words, thinking logically, and using reasoning. In each stage, he described how children develop their cognitive skills. ![]() Each stage describes a specific age group. Piaget proposed four stages to describe the development process of children: sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage. He believed that children of different ages made different mistakes because of the "quality rather than quantity" of their intelligence. His experience and observations at the Alfred Binet Laboratory were the beginnings of his theory of cognitive development. In 1919, while working at the Alfred Binet Laboratory School in Paris, Piaget "was intrigued by the fact that children of different ages made different kinds of mistakes while solving problems". Piaget's theory is mainly known as a developmental stage theory. The theory deals with the nature of knowledge itself and how humans gradually come to acquire, construct, and use it. It was originated by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). ![]() Piaget's theory of cognitive development is a comprehensive theory about the nature and development of human intelligence. ![]()
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