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He believed that children of different ages made different mistakes because of the "quality rather than quantity" of their intelligence.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mcleod |first=Saul |date=2007 |title=[Jean Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development] |url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html |language=en}}</ref> Piaget proposed four stages to describe the development process of children: sensorimotor stage, pre-operational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage.<ref>{{Citation |last=Bovet |first=Magali |title=Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development and Individual Differences |date=1976 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46323-5_20 |work=Piaget and His School |pages=269–279 |place=Berlin, Heidelberg |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-46323-5_20 |isbn=978-3-540-07248-5 |access-date=2022-07-07}}</ref> Each stage describes a specific age group. In each stage, he described how children develop their cognitive skills. For example, he believed that children experience the world through actions, representing things with words, thinking logically, and using reasoning.

To Piaget, [[cognitive development]] was a progressive reorganizationreorganisation of mental processes resulting from biological maturation and environmental experience. He believed that children construct an understanding of the world around them, experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment, then adjust their ideas accordingly.<ref name=McLeod>{{cite web|last=McLeod|first=S. A.|title=Piaget {{!}} Cognitive Theory|url=http://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html|publisher=Simply Psychology|access-date=18 September 2012}}</ref> Moreover, Piaget claimed that cognitive development is at the centercentre of the human organism, and language is contingent on knowledge and understanding acquired through cognitive development.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/edinburghthinkl/jean_piaget/0|title=JEAN PIAGET - Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language - Credo Reference|website=search.credoreference.com}}</ref> Piaget's earlier work received the greatest attention.

Child-centered classrooms and "[[open education]]" are direct applications of Piaget's views.<ref>Great Lives from History: The Twentieth Century; September 2008, p1–3</ref> Despite its huge success, Piaget's theory has some limitations that Piaget recognizedrecognised himself: for example, the theory supports sharp stages rather than continuous development ([[horizontal and vertical décalage]]).<ref name="go.galegroup.com2"/>

==Nature of intelligence: operative and figurative==