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John Piaget
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John Piaget
August 9, 1896 September 16, 1980
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Biography August 9, 1896 September 16, 1980
Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland
Swiss child psychologist who studieshow children make decisions
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Biography
John Piaget is known for his workand study on children and his theory
of cognitive development.
He began scientific research and the
early age of eleven.
Piaget wrote more than sixty bookand hundreds of articles in his
lifetime.
He also created the Modern Test of
Intelligence.
He was married in 1923, to ValentineChatenay and they had three
children together.
John studied his children right from
birth.
Piaget made his proposal for his
theory in 1969.
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INTRODUCTION
Scientific Theorist John Piaget (view is constructivist)
Paigets theory states that childrens cognitive development advances in fourstagesand distinctmental operations.
Piaget also proposed that moral reasoning develops in threestages.
Stage 1 Ages 2-7
Stage 2 Ages 7 or 8 to 10 or 11
Stage 3 Ages 11 or 12
Dynamic Development Includes: Organization
Schemes
Adaptation
Assimilation Accommodation
Equilibration
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The Four Stages of Cognitive
Development:
Sensory Motor(Birth-2) Object Permanence
Preoperational(2-7) EgocentrismConcrete Operations(7-11) Interiorized
Action
Formal Operations(11-16) Abstract Thought
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Preoperational(2-7) Egocentrism
Perceptual and Intuitive
Thought Period
Children use language
and mental images inillogical ways
Thought and appearance
are important
Lack in judgment orreasoning to solve
problems
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Concrete Operations(7-11)
Interiorized Action
.the child now can
operate in thought on
concrete objects or their
representations.
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Formal Operations(11-16) Abstract
Thought
Operate on Operations
Thinking about thought
rather than about
concrete things.
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Cognitive Stage Theory
Piaget developed the study of cognitive development by sitting with
children and asking them questions to see how exactly their mind works.
He set the children up in a variety of settings for his study.
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The Three Mountain Task was developed by Jean Piaget and
Brbel Inhelder in the 1940s.In the task, a child faced a display of three model mountains
while a researcher placed a doll at different viewpoints of the
display.
The researcher asked the child to reconstruct the display from
the doll's perspective, select from a set of pictures showing the
doll's view, and identify a viewpoint for the doll specified by a
picture of the display.
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Cognitive Stage Theory
Organizationthe creation ofcategories or systems
of knowledge
Adaptationadjustmentto newinformation,achieved by processof elimination andassimilation
Equilibration- aconstant striving for astable balance