Jean Piaget By Kaity Hardwick and Nandina Smith

Who was Jean Piaget before he was The Jean Piaget? Birth: August 9, 1896, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland Death: September 16, 1980, in Geneva, Switzerland Studied mollusks at a young age, explored local museum of natural history, he stared at specimens, led to his fascination with studying things Published by age 11 (mollusks) Married Valentine Chatenay in 1923 and had 3 children whom he studied. Trained in natural history and philosophy Received a doctorate in from the University of Neuchatel in 1918 He was just a guy

Who was The Jean Piaget? Spent a semester studying psychology under Carl Jung and Paul Eugen Bleuler at the University of Zürich, developed an interest in psychoanalysis Developed as a psychologist in 1920s Worked with Theodore Simon to evaluate tests on children that were meant to measure a draw connections between a child’s age and their errors Spent 60 years studying child development Studied his own children Developed the 4 stages of child development He was more than just a guy

First Stage of Development Sensorimotor stage: Birth to age 2 Children experience world through movement and the 5 senses Extremely egocentric (cannot perceive the world “through other eyes”) Primary circular reaction: Infant tries to reproduce an event that happened by accident (sucking thumb) Schemata: an underlying organizational pattern or structure Divided into 6 substages Simple Reflexes: Birth to 1 month old, use reflexes like sucking. First habits and primary circular reactions: 1 to 4 months old, learning to coordinate sensation and 2 types of schema (habit and circular reactions). Secondary circular reactions: 4-8 months old, becoming aware of things outside their own body, object-oriented, might accidentally shake a rattle and continue to do it for satisfaction. Coordination of secondary circular reactions: 8-12 months, starting to do things intentionally, combining and recombining schemata to reach a goal (use a stick to reach something). Understanding objects continue to exist even when they can't see them (peek-a-boo). Tertiary circular reactions, novelty, and curiosity: 12 to 18 months, exploring and trying different things to get different results. Internalization of schemata: 18 to 24 months, developing the ability to use primitive symbols and form enduring mental representations, beginnings of insight or true creativity.

Second Stage of Development Preoperational stage: 2 to 7 Not yet understanding concrete logic, cannot mentally manipulate information Increase in playing and pretending takes place in this stage, trouble seeing things from different points of view Children begin ask questions like "why?" and "how come?" Divided into two substages: Symbolic Function Substage: 2 to 4, symbols to represent world around them, (child drawing family, people are not drawn to scale or accurate physical traits are given), child knows they are not accurate but it does not seem to be an issue to them. Intuitive Thought Substage: 4 to 7, curious and ask many questions, “why things are the way they are”, vast amount of knowledge but unaware of how they acquired it.

Third Stage of Development Concrete operational stage: 7 to 11 Children think logically, limited to what they can physically manipulate. No longer egocentric. Become more aware of logic and conservation. Improve drastically with their classification skills (putting things into groups).

Fourth Stage of Development Formal operational stage: 11 to 16+ Develop abstract thought and can easily conserve and think logically For the first time ever able to think abstractly and utilize metacognition. Displaying more skills oriented towards problem solving, often in multiple steps. Metacognition: awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes.

Our belief Mostly agree His view is a general outline Everyone learns at their own pace Most kids follow his outline

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