1. Jean Piaget By: The most amazing group in the whole wide world By: The most amazing group in the whole wide world

2. Background Information Birth: 9 August 1896 Death: 16 September 1980 As a child, he was interested in biology and the natural world Educated at the University of Neuchâtel Married Valentine Châtenay and had three children Awarded the Balzan Prize for Social and Political Sciences.

3. Cognitive Development Cognition: the mental process by which knowledge is acquired. Stimulus + Cognition = Response (question) (thought process) (answer)

4. Father of Cognitive Development Studied child cognitive development Children and adults think differently Genetics and environment play roles Reflexes:simple cognition that help infants adapt (examples: sucking, grasping) Schema: reflexes are categorized Operations: logical thought processes

5. What Piaget Believed Assimilation: sending new information into an already existing category Accommodation: creating new category for new information Equilibration: balancing the learner and his/her environment