Jean Piaget's
Jean Piaget 's Cognitive Development
October 28 2011
PSYC 12
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Jean Piaget is just one of the many psychologist out there. His theory is about children and how their cognitive mind develops. He has four different stages that he thinks happen during cognitive development. These stage are the Sensorimotor stage, The Preoperational Stage , The Concrete Stage , and Formal Operational Stage .
Biography
Jean Piaget was born August 9,1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. When he was 11 years old he had already begun his career as a researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow. Jean continued to study the natural sciences and got his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Neuchâtel. He later developed an interest in psychoanalysis. He spent a year working at a boys ' institution created by Alfred Binet. He is best known for his research on children 's cognitive development, he did a lot of this by studying his own three children. His theory describes the stages that children pass through during the development of intelligence and formal thought processes. Piaget provide support for the idea that children think differently than adults do. (Cherry, 2011) The Sensorimotor Stage The Sensorimotor stage is from birth to two years, and is centered on the infant trying to make sense of the world. During this stage, the infants knowledge of the world is limited to their sensory perceptions and motor activities. The infant 's behaviours are limited to basic motor responses caused by sensory stimuli, which they are born with, such as looking, sucking, grasping and listening. According to him the development of object permanence is one of the most important accomplishments at this stage. This is when a child 's understanding that objects continue to exist even though they cannot be seen or heard (Cherry, 2011) This stage can be
October 28 2011
PSYC 12
.
Jean Piaget is just one of the many psychologist out there. His theory is about children and how their cognitive mind develops. He has four different stages that he thinks happen during cognitive development. These stage are the Sensorimotor stage, The Preoperational Stage , The Concrete Stage , and Formal Operational Stage .
Biography
Jean Piaget was born August 9,1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. When he was 11 years old he had already begun his career as a researcher by writing a short paper on an albino sparrow. Jean continued to study the natural sciences and got his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Neuchâtel. He later developed an interest in psychoanalysis. He spent a year working at a boys ' institution created by Alfred Binet. He is best known for his research on children 's cognitive development, he did a lot of this by studying his own three children. His theory describes the stages that children pass through during the development of intelligence and formal thought processes. Piaget provide support for the idea that children think differently than adults do. (Cherry, 2011) The Sensorimotor Stage The Sensorimotor stage is from birth to two years, and is centered on the infant trying to make sense of the world. During this stage, the infants knowledge of the world is limited to their sensory perceptions and motor activities. The infant 's behaviours are limited to basic motor responses caused by sensory stimuli, which they are born with, such as looking, sucking, grasping and listening. According to him the development of object permanence is one of the most important accomplishments at this stage. This is when a child 's understanding that objects continue to exist even though they cannot be seen or heard (Cherry, 2011) This stage can be
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