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Piaget and Vygotsky
Cognitive Development
Educational psychology
Jean Piaget
Learning
piaget's theory of cognitive development
Thought
The main objective of primary schools is to promote the gradual and structured advancement of thinking, understanding, and logical reasoning from infancy to adulthood. Consequently, this facilitates the overall cognitive development of children. Young children greatly benefit from the continuous advancement of cognition as it provides them with essential knowledge about themselves and the world….
Piaget’s Sensorimotor Stage of Cognitive Development
Child Development
Childhood
Jean Piaget
Child psychologist, Jean Piaget, believed that a person understands whatever information fits into his established view of the world. Piaget described four stages of cognitive development and related them to a person’s ability to understand. The Sensorimotor Stage occurs from birth to 2 years. It is during this stage that the child learns about his…
How to Compare & Contrast the Theories of Piaget and Vygotsky?
Cognitive Development
Education
Jean Piaget
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piaget's theory of cognitive development
ean Piaget was a Swiss developmental psychologist famous for his theories of child development, particularly his theory of cognitive development. He proposed a stage theory of development, which linked the interaction between cognitive and biological development in children. Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Russian psychologist who was most famous for his theory of sociocultural development…
| born | August 9, 1896, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
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| died | September 16, 1980, Geneva, Switzerland |
| description | Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology". Piaget placed great importance on the education of children. |
| books | The Psychology of the Child 1966, The Language and Thought of the Child 1923, The Child's Conception of the World 1926 |
| education | University of Neuchâtel (1918), University of Zurich |
| children | Jacqueline Piaget, Laurent Piaget, Lucienne Piaget |
| quotations | “Experience precedes understanding.” “Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.” “Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”,Play is the work of childhood. Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. |
| information | Spouse: Valentine Châtenay (m. 1923–1980) Known for: Constructivism, History of psychology, Genetic epistemology |
