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Cognitive Processes
Adolescence
Concept
Jean Piaget
Neuroscience
piaget's theory of cognitive development
Thought
Abstract This paper is about cognitive processes and how they affect an individual’s thinking and mental processing abilities. The paper will take into consideration adolescents, and analyze their various activities, including learning problems if any, and find explanations about why they do what they do. A conclusion will be reached. Cognitive Processes Jerry A Fodor…
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…
| 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 |
