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Jean Jacque Piaget - College Term Paper

Jean Jacque Piaget

was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland on August 9,
1896 and died in Geneva on September 16, 1980. Piaget was best known for
his work in developmental psychology of children and genetic epistemology.
Piaget began his work studying natural sciences at the University of
Neuchatel where he later obtained a Ph.D. Throughout Piaget’s life he
discovered and accomplished many things and undoubtedly made the most of
his life.
Piaget decided to leave Neuchatel and go to France, where he began
his studies on the development of cognitive abilities. While in France, he
did his first experimental studies of the growing mind. One year later, in
1921, he became director of studies at the Rousseau ...

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his/her relationship to various objects. The child
learns a variety of fundamental movements and perceptual activities such as
holding a bottle. The second stage is the Preoperational Stage, ages two
to seven. Children start to use language and try to make sense of the
world, but have a much less sophisticated mode of thought than adults.
Children in this stage also need to test thoughts with reality on a daily
basis and do not appear to be able to learn from generalizations made by
adults. Children at this time are also very intuitive. It is possible to
carry on conversation with the child now. The third stage is the Concrete
Operational Stage, ages seven to twelve. The child can now do mental
operations but only with real, concrete objects, events, or situations.
Logical reasoning is now understood. For example, the child now
understands the need to go to bed early when necessary to rise early the
next morning. A preoperational child does not understand the logic ...

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Added: 3/25/2005 04:20:08 AM
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