2. Jean William Fritz
Piaget
• Born: 9 August 1896
Neuchatel, Switzerland
• Died: 16 September 1980
Geneva, Switzerland (aged 84)
• University of Neuchatel;
University of Zurich
• Fields: Developmental
Psychology, Epistemology
3. Who is Jean Piaget’s?
Arthur Piaget
Valentine
Châtenay
Jean
Rebecca Jackson
sister
sister
1896-1980
Born in Switzerland
Jacqueline
Lucienne
Laurent
First published at age
11
First published at age 11
Know for cognitive
development theory
Know for cognitive
development theory
4. Aug. 9, 1896-- Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland
1906--- Published first scientific paper
1911--- Started publishing on own
1917--- Published a philosophic novel, Recherch �
1918--- Doctor's degree with a thesis on mollusks of Valais
1919--- In Paris, started to study language development in children
1921--- Started to work in child psychology
1922--- Met and married Valentine Chatenay in Geneva
1924--- Published The Language and Thought of the Child
1925--- First daughter born
1926--- Published The Child's Conception of the World
1927--- Second daughter born
1927--- Published The Child's Conception of Causality
1928--- Published Judgment and Reasoning in the Child
1929--- Appointed professor of history of scientific thought at the University of Geneva
1931--- First son born
5. 1932--- Published The Moral Judgment of the Child
1936--- Published The Origins of Intelligence in Children
1940--- Became Director of the Psychology Laboratory
1950--- Member of the Executive Council of UNESCO
1951--- Published Play, Dreams, and Imitation in Children
1955--- Became director of International Center for
Epistemology in Geneva
1958--- Published The Growth of Logical Thinking
From Childhood to Adolescence
1970--- Published Carmichael's Manual of Child
Psychology
1971--- Published Biology and Knowledge
1972--- Defined the four stages of intellectual development
1974--- Published The Grasp of Consciousness
1980-- Died on September 17th
6. How do we understand the world around us?
As we get older our collection of knowledge
helps us to understand and comprehend
the world around us…
ANIMALS ARE
INTERESTING
CREATURES
DOGS
HAVE 4
LEGS
??
DOGS, CATS
& HORSE’S
HAVE 4 LEGS
I NEED TO GO TO
UNI TO BE ABLE
TO WORK AS A
VET
8. SCHEMA
• Basic building block of intelligent behavior.
• Units of knowledge
• Set of linked mental representations of the
world, which we use both to understand and to
respond to situations.
12. • Object permanence – the concept that things
continue to exist even when they are out of
sight.
• Mental representation – mental images or
symbols (such as words) used to think about or
remember an object, a person, or an event.
13.
14. PREOPERATIONAL STAGE
2 – 7 years
Language
development
Fantasy play
Symbolic gestures
Egocentrism
15. • Egocentric – unable to see
things from another’s point of
view.
17. • Principles of conservation – the
concept that the quantity of a
substance is not altered by reversible
changes in its appearance.
• Complex classification – to think about
objects as being simultaneously
members of two classes, one more
inclusive than the other.
18. FORMAL OPERATIONAL
STAGE
Adolescence - Adulthood
• They are capable of going beyond the here and
now to understand things in terms of cause and
effect, to consider possibilities as well as
realities, and to develop and use general rules,
principles, and theories.
19.
20. “ The principle goal of education
in the schools should be creating
men and women who are capable
of doing new things, not simply
repeating what other generations
have done. ”
- Jean Piaget
21. References:
• http://psychology.about.com/od/profilesofmajorthinke
• Smith, L. (1997). Jean Piaget. In N.Sheehy, A.
Chapman. W.Conroy (eds). Biographical
dictionary of psychology. London: Routledge.
• McLeod, S.A. (2009). Jean Piaget / Cognitive
Theory – Simply Psychology. Retrieved from
http://www.simplypsychology.org/piaget.html
• Lundin, R. W. (1996). Theories and Systems of
Psychology 5th Ed. pp. 287-290
• Morris, C.G. et.al. (2007). Psychology Concepts
and Applications. pp.241-243
