Jean Piaget
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Who He Is
Born in 1896, who worked as a scientist in Switzerland. His primary study was children, and mainly observed and took notes on what children did without instruction. He passed away in 1980.
Importance to Human Development and Education
He introduced the ideas of schemas when studying memory and thought. The definition of schema is a cognitive framework that places concepts, objects, or experiences into categories or groups of associations. He also discussed how these said schemas lead to the different forms of adaptation:
assimilation and accommodation. Both of these processes children properly store new information and learn. Assimilation is the fitting of new experiences into existing mental schemas, while accommodation is changing your mental schemas so they fit new experiences. Finding a happy median between both assimilation and accommodation is called equilibration.
Theories or Famous Experiments
Piaget's cognitive development theory was very similar to Freud's, because his theory broke down each part of development into a different stage, just like Freud had done previously. He broke life up into four distinct stages. Below is a chart of the his stages with a description of each.
Born in 1896, who worked as a scientist in Switzerland. His primary study was children, and mainly observed and took notes on what children did without instruction. He passed away in 1980.
Importance to Human Development and Education
He introduced the ideas of schemas when studying memory and thought. The definition of schema is a cognitive framework that places concepts, objects, or experiences into categories or groups of associations. He also discussed how these said schemas lead to the different forms of adaptation:
assimilation and accommodation. Both of these processes children properly store new information and learn. Assimilation is the fitting of new experiences into existing mental schemas, while accommodation is changing your mental schemas so they fit new experiences. Finding a happy median between both assimilation and accommodation is called equilibration.
Theories or Famous Experiments
Piaget's cognitive development theory was very similar to Freud's, because his theory broke down each part of development into a different stage, just like Freud had done previously. He broke life up into four distinct stages. Below is a chart of the his stages with a description of each.
*Schema: a cognitive framework that places concepts, objects, or experiences into categories
*Assimilation: fitting new experiences into existing mental schemas
*Accommodation:changing you mental schemas so they fit new experiences
*Equilibration: an attempt to resolve uncertainty to return to a comfortable cognitive state
Picture (of Piaget) used from: http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000094077/piaget-3.jpg
Chart from:http://mcmetec5303.wikispaces.com/file/view/piaget-stages-of-cognitive-development-examples-i8.gif/404296246/piaget-stages-of-cognitive-development-examples-i8.gif
*Assimilation: fitting new experiences into existing mental schemas
*Accommodation:changing you mental schemas so they fit new experiences
*Equilibration: an attempt to resolve uncertainty to return to a comfortable cognitive state
Picture (of Piaget) used from: http://www.nndb.com/people/359/000094077/piaget-3.jpg
Chart from:http://mcmetec5303.wikispaces.com/file/view/piaget-stages-of-cognitive-development-examples-i8.gif/404296246/piaget-stages-of-cognitive-development-examples-i8.gif