Jean Piaget
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Jean Piaget's model of cognitive development argues that much of what we see and understand about the world derives from the way in which the child's brain develops. His model, many of the aspects of which has proven to be extremely helpful in understanding how human cognition develops as well as how it works across the lifespan, has implications for the ways in which eyewitnesses process information about what they have seen. However, while his work on early childhood cognitive development remains the gold standard in that arena, the ways in which his theories are extrapolated to adult eyewitnesses is problematic, as this paper explores.Central to Piaget's argument is the idea that all children who are at the same point of cognitive development are more or less the same in terms of how they see the world: Any child who has mastered the skill of seriation - i.e. the ability to place objects in a logical order and to "keep" them there mentally - is more similar to any other child who has achieved this co
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