Editing Jean Piaget (section)

=== Developmental psychology ===
Piaget is considered the most influential figure in developmental psychology, though many of aspects of his theories are no longer accepted by mainstream psychologists. Developmental psychologists today do not view development as taking place in [[Stage theory|stages]]<ref name="Gopnik 1996">{{cite journal |title=The Post-Piaget Era |journal=Psychological Science |year=1996 |last=Gopnik |first=Alison |volume=7 |issue=4 |pages=221–225 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00363.x |s2cid=143973228 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00363.x |access-date=2021-04-01 }}</ref><ref name="Hopkins 2011" /> and many of Piaget's empirical findings have been overturned by subsequent research.<ref name="Gopnik Wellman">{{cite journal |title=Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory |journal=Psychological Bulletin |year=2012 |last1=Gopnik |first1=A. |last2=Wellman |first2=H.M. |volume=138 |issue=6 |pages=1085–1108 |doi=10.1037/a0028044 |pmid=22582739 |pmc=3422420 }}</ref> For example, psychologists no longer view young children as being incapable of understanding abstract concepts,<ref name="IzardSann2009" /> and no longer believe that babies do not understand object permanence.<ref name="Dehaene 2020" /> Despite this, developmental psychologists do acknowledge the importance of Piaget's legacy as the founder of their field. They recognize his innovative empirical work, his attempts to integrate his results into a unified theoretical model and the way he created a path for subsequent researchers to follow.<ref name="Klahr" /> Indeed, many developmental psychology researchers today work in a post-Piagetian or [[Neo-Piagetian theories of cognitive development|neo-Piagetian]] framework.<ref name="Martí">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Martí |first=E. |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education |title=Post-Piagetian Perspectives of Cognitive Development |year=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.914 |isbn=978-0-19-026409-3 }}</ref><ref name="Morra">{{cite book | last = Morra | first = Sergio | title = Cognitive development: neo-Piagetian perspectives | publisher = Erlbaum | location = New York | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-8058-6350-5 }}</ref>