Who is Jean Piaget?

                         

• Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland in 1896 and died in 1980. 
• He was a psychologist who created the cognitive learning theory. 
• He developed his theory through observations of children.

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The four stages of Jean Piaget's cognitive theory of learning

• sensorimotor: learn through senses and motor activities
• preoperational: pretend play, speech and communication development
• concrete operational: logical reasoning, problem solving and beginning of abstract thinking
• formal operational: abstract thinking, deductive logic, and test hypotheses