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was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9, 1896 and died in Geneva on September 16, 1980. Piaget was best known for his work in developmental psychology of children and genetic epistemology. Piaget began his work studying natural sciences at the University ....

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.... birth until age two. According to Piaget, this stage is the most interesting because it includes the most rapid changes. It is at this time when a child learns about his/her relationship to various objects. The child learns a variety of fundamental movements and perceptual activities such as holding a bottle. The second stage is the Preoperational Stage, ages two to seven. Children start to use language and try to make sense of the world, but have a much less sophisticated mode of thought than adults. Children in this stage also need to test thoughts with reality on a daily basis and do not appear to be able to learn from generalizations made ....