Theorist Research Paper
Early Life Piaget was born in Switzerland August 9, 1896; was a Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Wikipedia
He received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Neuchatel 1918
Also the University of Zurich,
Piaget study children as well as learning different things by observing his own 3 kids Jacqueline, Laurent, Lucienne Piaget
He had already started his career for himself at the very young age of 11. While working he became intrigued with the reasons children gave for their wrong answers on the questions that required logical thinking.
Piaget’s Fulfilling Career
Jean Piaget was the first theorist to study children in a scientific way; he focused on …show more content…
This is more like a rehearsed script, Piaget theory states that this is what the mind does follow a routine that is programed in your brain as young as a newborn infant it’s all due to your surroundings.
They are different types of schemas
First is the Initial Schema child begins to develop an understanding of what a dog looks like from looking at a picture, Piaget believed that newborns had such innate schemas even before being birthed into the world .He called these schemas neonatal they are the underlying innate reflexes, which are generally programed into us.
Babies have a sucking reflex due to something touch their lips; the reflex is just automatically programed into at birth due to babies being able to be breastfeed and or bottle right after delivery
The way Piaget viewed intellectual growth as a process of adaption (adjusting) to the world. This happens