Jean Piaget was born on August 9th, 1896 in Switzerland. He wrote over sixty books and hundreds of scholastic articles over his lifetime, the first in which he wrote a short paper about the albino sparrow that was considered to be the origins of his scientific career. Piaget studied natural sciences at the University of Neuchatel where he also held multiple chairs in psychology, sociology and history of science. He was also known for holding a chair for the history of scientific thinking at Geneva and the International Bureau of Education. In the 1920’s, Piaget was employed at the Binet Institute to create French translations of English intelligence test questions. He became interested as to why the children gave wrong answers to …show more content…
This stage is usually evident in kids between the ages of seven and eleven. At this point in development, children are beginning to think more logically about their surroundings. They are also beginning to think more about people outside of themselves and how they might think and feel towards certain things. Before this stage, the child is more egocentric with an “all about me” perspective and is now taking other people’s feelings and thoughts in to consideration, for however brief or long it stays in their mind.
Stage 4 – Formal Operational: The final stage that spans from the age eleven throughout adulthood is the Formal Operational stage. At this stage a person has developed increased logical thinking as well as deductive reasoning. A person starts seeing the world “scientifically” and noticing different paths and outcomes to situations that arise along with abstract thoughts. This stage is where all of us college students and teachers are at. We continue through life in the Formal Operational stage until the last day, constantly assimilating and accommodating what we didn’t know and already know to further our knowledge.
Assimilation and