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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

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