Jean Piaget

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Jean Piaget

• By Mary Favero
• Amanda Martinus
• Becky Beckett

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A Brief Biography

• Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9, 1896.
• Oldest child of 3.
• Interested in mollusks during adolescent years.
• Died in Genova on September 16, 1980.

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Schools and awards

• Studied natural science at the Univ. of
  Neuchatel, where he received Ph. D.
• Married Valentine Chatenay in 1923 and had 3
  children.
• Taught Sociology, Experimental Psychology,
  Genetic Psychology, and International Center for
  Genetic Epistemology at the Univ. of Geneva from
  1929 to 1954.
• Honorary Doctorates from 31 different
  universities.
• Erasmus Prize (1972) and 11 other international
  prizes.

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The Goal

• Piaget had one unique goal.
• How does knowledge grow?
• His answer is that the growth of knowledge is a
  progressive construction of logically enabled
  structures supporting one another until reaching
  adulthood.

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What are cognitive structures?

• Cognitive structures are patterns of physical or
  mental action that underlie specific acts of
  intelligence and correspond to stages of child
  development.

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Theory

• Stages of Cognitive Development
• Sensori-motor Birth-2 years
• Pre-operational 2-7 years
• Concrete operational 7-11 years
• Formal operational 11 years and older

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Key Ideas

• Adaptation
• Assimilation
• Accommodation
• Classification
• Class Inclusion
• Conservation
• Decentration
• Egocentrism
• Operation
• Scheme
• Stage

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Preoprational stage

• Viewing a picture from your point of view and
  another persons point of view.

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In Einsteins words

• Einstein said the discovery of the four stages of
  cognitive development was so simple that only a
  genius could have thought of it.

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The end