Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget was known to be one of the most influential researchers in the area of early childhood education and developmental psychology. Around the year 1920, Piaget developed his first cognitive theory using the observation of children. He believed that children and adults think differently. He stated that “thinking develops sequentially through a series of stages, and that cognitive development depends on a child’s actual concrete experiences” (Early Literacy Handout, 2015). Therefore, he observed children from birth through their adolescent years. Jean Piaget devoted his life to studying the cognitive development of children. The objective of the Piagetian theory was to explain to the world to know that children do not think like adults. Instead, “children pass through distinct stages of development that are characterized by particular types of thinking” (Early Literacy Handout, 2015). Even though Piaget attached specific ages for each stage, some children may master a particular stage earlier than others. Piaget’s theory can help teachers “determine each child’s stage of development by examining the tasks that a child is able to perform consistently” (Early Literacy Handout, 2015). Jean Piaget came up with four stages of cognitive development which include the stages; sensorimotor, preconceptual, concrete…

Introduction Jean Piaget is a world renown psychologist who is mostly known for his work with children. Although, his work is vastly criticized due to the test subjects being his own children and no one else these theories have proven true time and time again. Piaget believes that there are four stages to development which are sensorimotor intelligence, preoperational thought, concrete operations, and formal operations (Wadsworth, 2004). Using the Piagetian Task Kit, I was able to observe…

Jean Piaget, a Swiss developmental psychologist, pioneered the study of cognitive development in children. Piaget charted a developmental sequence of stages during which the child constructs increasingly complex notions of the world, and he described how the child acts at each level and how this activity leads to the next level. These four progressive stages of cognitive development are: the sensorimotor stage, the preoperational stage, the stage of concrete operations and the stage of formal…

Jean Piaget and Constructivism Jean Piaget was educated in the sciences of biology and philosophy. Piaget thought himself to be a “genetic epistemologist”which is a scientific study of the origins of knowledge. “He was mainly interested in the biological influences on "how we come to know." He believed that what distinguishes human beings from other animals is our ability to do "abstract symbolic reasoning"”(Huitt, 2003). Piaget was a very significant researcher in the field of developmental…

Jean Piaget’s (1896-1980) theory of cognitive development began in the 1920’s. His partner, Theodore Simon, designed a standardized test that was meant to measure a child’s intelligence and how his/her age could be responsible for the nature of the mistakes made. Piaget found this test to be too constricting however, and so created a revised version. With this less rigid version, Piaget studied a child’s intelligence and their reasoning for the errors they made. He found that, if they did not…

Piaget had taken an interest in zoology at an early part of his life. In his younger years, he had written an article on albino sparrows that ended up being published https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Piaget. Jean Piaget studied zoology at the University of Neuchatel. It wasn’t until he after Piaget received his doctorate that he became interested in psychology. He later on traveled to Zurich, where he studied under Carl Jung and Eugene Bleuler. Jean Piaget continued his studies…

I agree with both Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky that human understanding develops in cognitive ways. Both theorists believed cognitive development begins from an early age. Humans change and develop their thinking in reasoning, concepts, memory and language as they mature. According to (McDevitt, Ormrod, Cupit, Chandler & Aloa, 2013) “Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, both of whom examined the active manner in which children learn, though the differed radically in their explanations”. Classroom…

Jean Piaget is best known for The Cognitive Development Theory, which he proposed that children’s thinking go through a set series of four major stages. This includes thoughts, judgement and knowledge from infancy-adulthood. He suggested that we go through these stages according to age and that the stages are gone through one after the other as we mature. These four stages are called the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operations and formal operations. Each stage builds upon…

Piaget’s Theory Well known French psychologist, Jean Piaget, developed a theory, which is known as the four stages of cognitive development. The stages start from when a child is born up to the age of twelve, or preteen years. According to simplypsychology.org, this source states, “Piaget (1952) believed that [these four stages] are universal-i.e. that the same sequence of development occurs in children all over the world, whatever their culture (McLeod 2009).” To continue, I will elaborate and…

Jean Piaget observed intellectual growth as a manner of adaptation to the world. This happens through: assimilation, the process through which an individual incorporates new experiences into an already existing schemata, and accommodation, the process of modifying existing schemata to satisfy the requirements of new experiences. Piaget believed the adaption or change of the person them self, to be the product of their ability to assimilate by incorporating new experiences into their pre-existing…