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The first scientist to systematically examine children’s thinking and reasoning, Swiss scholar Jean Piaget (1896–1980), believed that to understand children, we must understand how they think because thinking influences all of behavior. According to Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory, children and adults are active explorers who learn by interacting with the world, building their own understanding of everyday phenomena, and applying it to adapt to the world around them.