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underlie mathematical theory. Piaget could have predicted the

resulting failure, but why is this so?

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Chapter Notes

1. Piaget (1929/1951), p. 370.

2. When he first visited America in 1921, it was said that

Einstein’s work could only be understood by 12 living people

(Paterniti, 2000). Piaget, like Einstein, was unquestionably brilliant, and though he wrote succinctly he, too, can be

difficult reading (Inhelder, 1988). Piaget was so busy revising

and extending his theory that he seldom stopped to try to pull itall together for the reader. I try to give a proper introduction to

Piaget, and one that is lengthier than that of the average

beginning textbook – but one could write an entire chapter onthe stages of sensorimotor period alone. For an advanced

treatment the reader is referred to Piaget’s original works

(especially Piaget, 1936/1974, 1936/1954); to Ginsburg andOpper (1988); or to Flavell, Miller, and Miller (2001).

3. Here as elsewhere, Piaget seems ahead of his time: note the

importance of modeling in Bandura’s social learning theorywhich comes much later in the history of American psychology

(per Chapter 11).

4.

The term “circular reaction” was coined by the Americandevelopmentalist James Mark Baldwin, whose work influenced

Piaget, who frequently cited Baldwin in his writings.

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