Jean Piaget was and still is a very famous psychologist in Human Development. He was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9, 1896 and died in Geneva, Switzerland on September 16, 1980. While his father was interested in the city they came from and medieval literature, Piaget’s mother was a very kind, smart lady but was not psychologically stable and that is what influenced his interest into human psychology. As a kid Piaget found animals, such as mollusks, birds and anything else from nature very interesting. He wrote his first scientific paper at age ten and by his teenage years those papers, plus a lot more were getting published. Readers didn’t know how old he was and assumed he was much older and educated. In college he majored in
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He published 5 books covering child psychology, while meeting Valentine Chatenay who became his wife and they eventually had 3 children together. In 1925, he started teaching at the University of Neuchatel where he taught psychology, philosophy, science and sociology. During this time, Piaget and his wife studied their own children and their reactions to many experiments helping him develop his theory of cognitive development. He called the processes he came up with assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is applying existing mental patterns to new situations, and accommodation is the modification of an existing mental pattern to fit a new …show more content…
He acknowledges readiness and how important it is. A child should not be expected to learn something when they are just not old enough or mentally ready. He planned to spend 5 years studying children and ended up spending thirty years studying child psychology. He explained how different adults think while comparing them to children. He also explains how an infant grows into an individual that can critically think using reasoning and understanding. Piaget used schemas, which are basic building blocks that help organize knowledge. It would be very hard to live your life on a daily basis with no experiences or planning of future actions. You would just exist, which obviously that is not what people in this world do. Piaget helped people understand the world around them and how people
He published 5 books covering child psychology, while meeting Valentine Chatenay who became his wife and they eventually had 3 children together. In 1925, he started teaching at the University of Neuchatel where he taught psychology, philosophy, science and sociology. During this time, Piaget and his wife studied their own children and their reactions to many experiments helping him develop his theory of cognitive development. He called the processes he came up with assimilation and accommodation. Assimilation is applying existing mental patterns to new situations, and accommodation is the modification of an existing mental pattern to fit a new …show more content…
He acknowledges readiness and how important it is. A child should not be expected to learn something when they are just not old enough or mentally ready. He planned to spend 5 years studying children and ended up spending thirty years studying child psychology. He explained how different adults think while comparing them to children. He also explains how an infant grows into an individual that can critically think using reasoning and understanding. Piaget used schemas, which are basic building blocks that help organize knowledge. It would be very hard to live your life on a daily basis with no experiences or planning of future actions. You would just exist, which obviously that is not what people in this world do. Piaget helped people understand the world around them and how people