Introduction:
Jean Piaget studied and analyzed children and proposed a theory regarding the development of thinking. The Piaget theory of the intellectual or cognitive development focuses on the various stages of development from the birth to adolescent and that depends on their abilities (language, memory, morals, and reasoning). Piaget theory states the four different stages of the development of children and that depicts diverse ways of human thinking about the world. The different ways of thinking depend on their personal experience. The four stages of the cognitive development are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational and the stages are based on the age of children.
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