Piaget's (1896-1980) work was based around the way in which children adapted and learnt about the world and how to live. He believed that accommodation, being the theory that the individual changes their ways to adapt to the environment and assimilation, which is the theory that individuals use existing knowledge to deal with the environment, where key contributors to a child's cognitive development.

Some of the main factors of Piaget's theories are that children are active learners, they learn through first hand experiences and prior experiences and that they imitate and convert what they learn into their individual behaviour styles.

Piaget's theory is constructivist because he focused on the intellectual and cognitive development and ignored the importance of social or emotional aspects. Piaget believed that a child's cognitive development happens in stages and that children flow through the stages naturally.

The first stage being the sensorimotor stage, which he......

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