Jean Piaget pioneered the study of childrenās intellectual development. He argued that childrenās understanding of the world progresses through four stages: sensorimotor development and self-awareness; representational thought, including by means of language; classification of objects by their similarities and differences and the emergence of elementary logical abilities; and advanced reasoning, including manipulation of abstract ideas.
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