Jean Piaget

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Jean Piaget

• Cognitive Development

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Biographical Information

• 1896 born in Switzerland
• 1907 published at age 10
• 1918 obtains Doctorate in Zoology and studies
  Psychoanalysis
• 1920 studies childrens intelligence in Paris
• 1923 published first of nearly 60 books
• 1980 dies

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Major Points of Piagets Theory

• General theory of intellectual development
• Intelligence develops in a sequence of stages
  related to age (4 stages that are sequential)
• Order holds true for all children (universal)
• Children are not miniature adults
• Native endowment matters
• Quality of physical social environment matters
• Children need to take an active role in learning
• Nature and Nurture theory

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4 Stages of Cognitive Development

• 1.SensoryMotor(Sensorimotor)
• Control Body Movement
• Birth-2
• Object Permanency
• 2.Preoperational
• Language Development 2-6
• Conservation
• 3.Concrete Operational 6-12
• Predict Reactions
• 4. Formal Operational 12-
• Abstract Thinking

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• Sensorimotor
• stage of direct action
• objects exist only in view
• Preoperational
• understands object permanence
• egocentrism
• can not grasp conservation
• Concrete-Operational
• understands conservation
• serialization
• Formal-Operational
• abstract thinking
• deductive reasoning

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