Famous developmental psychologist – Jean Piaget
Piaget’s Biography & Work
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| (Jean Piaget: 1896 – 1980) Photo: ElPorvenir.mx |
This month I want to introduce you a famous psychologist; Jean Piaget. He is a cognitive developmental psychologist.
Jean Piaget was a Swiss Psychologist who focuses on doing research about children’s cognitive development, and believed that it is a maturational process. Piaget described himself as a philosopher concern with the development of knowledge rather than developmental psychologist; he used three of his own children as participants in his experiments. He found out that they tended to engage in behaviors which were distinctive to their age, and were making similar mistakes in problem solving. Piaget than concluded that every children conduct similar mistakes at particular age range, and they can resolve these problems when they grow older.
Jean Piaget was a Swiss Psychologist who focuses on doing research about children’s cognitive development, and believed that it is a maturational process. Piaget described himself as a philosopher concern with the development of knowledge rather than developmental psychologist; he used three of his own children as participants in his experiments. He found out that they tended to engage in behaviors which were distinctive to their age, and were making similar mistakes in problem solving. Piaget than concluded that every children conduct similar mistakes at particular age range, and they can resolve these problems when they grow older.
Piaget’s theory emphasis the notion of operation; he believed that an operation is a transformation of an object or things in the field of mathematic and logic. For example; by saying “Mary is my sister” transforming Mary to the concept of sister, Piaget thinks it is a development which happens at a higher level, which called invertible; that is whether things can be reversed by children or not. One of the important aspects of cognitive development is whether children can possess ability to use operations of different types.
Building up schemes is a way which helps children to form interaction with their environment; this process helps a child to adapt to his or her environment. These are some basic information about Piaget’s theory; next time I will start introducing his cognitive development theory.
Building up schemes is a way which helps children to form interaction with their environment; this process helps a child to adapt to his or her environment. These are some basic information about Piaget’s theory; next time I will start introducing his cognitive development theory.
Vicky Wong
Carlson, N. (1942). Psychology: The science of behavior. Boston : Allyn & Bacon
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