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Describe & evaluate Piaget's theory of cognitive development in children. Intelligence for Piaget is the means by which human beings adapt to their environment. It is a process, which involves the individual trying to construct an understanding of reality through interacting with it; knowledge does not come 'ready-made' but has to be discovered actively (or even invented), in Piaget's words. Piaget proposed that development should be thought of as a spiral (implying a continuous process) rather than as a step-by-step, discontinuous process (as implied by a stage theory proper). To Piaget children did not simply make errors. Rather it seemed to Piaget that older children seemed to organise their thinking in different ways to give better answers to questions i.e. their minds worked differently to that of adults. Piaget argued strongly that knowledge was discovered and constructed through the child's own activity. Piaget noted that all babies are born with similar...

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