Jean Piaget Cognitive Deveolpment
Jean Piaget and his Cognitive Development Theory
One of the most seminal thinkers in childhood development is none other than Jean Piaget himself. Jean Piaget lived from 1896 to 1980 and based most of his psychological research on the development of children. Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on the 8th of August 1896. Even though Piaget was born in Switzerland and his parents were both of Swiss heritage he unusually spoke fluent French. Piaget as a child grew up enjoying biology and the natural world. At the age of 10 Jean Piaget wrote his first scientific paper on the observations of an albino sparrow. He also gained an interest in zoology during his childhood which gave him a credible reputation by the age of 15 because he had written several in depth articles on mollusks. He went to the University of Neuchatel and earned a doctoral degree because of his intense mollusk research. During this period of time Jean Piaget published two papers on the direction of his thinking at the time. Jean Piaget finally became interested in psychoanalysis after he graduated from the University of Neuchatel. He then taught at a school for boys which was run by Alfred Binet, the creator of the Binet intelligence test. Jean Piaget assisted Binet in his experiments but over a span of a few years started to see a pattern in the answers the children were getting wrong. He began to conclude that the children weren't necessarily answering the questions wrong they just thought differently to older children and adults. His theory then began by concluding that children's cognitive processes are different from that of an adolescent or an adult. Jean Piaget started his idea of Cognitive Development Stages with a 2 step process. The first process was assimilation. Assimilation is the act of obtaining new information in an unorganized manor. For example take for instance a child reading a book they flip through the pages and find a picture of a zebra. At a young age most children
One of the most seminal thinkers in childhood development is none other than Jean Piaget himself. Jean Piaget lived from 1896 to 1980 and based most of his psychological research on the development of children. Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland on the 8th of August 1896. Even though Piaget was born in Switzerland and his parents were both of Swiss heritage he unusually spoke fluent French. Piaget as a child grew up enjoying biology and the natural world. At the age of 10 Jean Piaget wrote his first scientific paper on the observations of an albino sparrow. He also gained an interest in zoology during his childhood which gave him a credible reputation by the age of 15 because he had written several in depth articles on mollusks. He went to the University of Neuchatel and earned a doctoral degree because of his intense mollusk research. During this period of time Jean Piaget published two papers on the direction of his thinking at the time. Jean Piaget finally became interested in psychoanalysis after he graduated from the University of Neuchatel. He then taught at a school for boys which was run by Alfred Binet, the creator of the Binet intelligence test. Jean Piaget assisted Binet in his experiments but over a span of a few years started to see a pattern in the answers the children were getting wrong. He began to conclude that the children weren't necessarily answering the questions wrong they just thought differently to older children and adults. His theory then began by concluding that children's cognitive processes are different from that of an adolescent or an adult. Jean Piaget started his idea of Cognitive Development Stages with a 2 step process. The first process was assimilation. Assimilation is the act of obtaining new information in an unorganized manor. For example take for instance a child reading a book they flip through the pages and find a picture of a zebra. At a young age most children