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Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development

January 5, 2017 Kendra Cherry 1

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children progress through a series of stages of mental development. The theory outlines four distinct stages from birth through adolescence, focusing on how children acquire knowledge, reasoning, language, […]

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