Essays Tagged: "Jean Piaget"

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Develpment

During the 1920s, a biologist named Jean Piaget proposed a theory of cognitive development of children. He caused a new revolution in th ...

(7 pages) 577 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Jean Piaget

okay Works sources in nicelyBiographyJean Piaget was born of August 9, 1896 in the town of Neuchatel, Switzerland. His father was a unive ... magazine. The three paragraph article was based on an experience with an albino sparrow which young Jean had seen in the park. By age 16, Piaget's scientific research focused on mollusks, and had been ... ion of the co-director of the International Bureau of Education. He retired from this post in 1975. Jean Piaget died shortly after his eighty-forth birthday on September 17, 1980, in Geneva Switzerlan ...

(6 pages) 303 0 4.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory Wafa Nurdin

Do children perceive, think, and understand the world the way adults do? Jean Piaget asked himself the same question while working at Alfred Binet's laboratory. He noticed t ... operations and unless they are provided with appropriate educational opportunities and stimulation. Jean Piaget's theory is by far the most practical and effective theory because the North American so ... w influential this theory is and how it can affect many people into developing into a complete self.Jean Piaget has developed a premise in which a whole society can use instead of individuals. For exa ...

(4 pages) 289 2 3.5 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's Cognitive Development.

heory of cognitive development has had more impact than the cognitive stages that Piaget presented. Jean Piaget founded the regulation in its current form and his ideas, methods and findings have shap ... ind that the human spirit goes through a certain number of stages, each different from the other." -Jean Piaget.The first stage that Piaget came up with is the sensory-motor stage. This stage takes pl ...

(5 pages) 376 3 4.5 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

What contribution did Jean Piaget make to the understanding of child development.

ontinuous creativity" (www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/piaget.html). This quote is from Jean Piaget a Swiss psychologist born in 1896 who, through studies of his own three children tried t ...

(8 pages) 313 1 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Gender Roles.

According to Jean Piaget, sometime during adolescence gender roles are established. I want to talk about the gend ...

(3 pages) 154 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Piaget's Response to education.

PIAGET RESPONSE ASSIGNMENTEducation has been influenced by many people, especially Jean Piaget. He proposed a theory of cognitive development of children. He caused a new revolution i ...

(3 pages) 159 0 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Write an essay to discuss Kohlberg's stages of moral development

est of the psychological community on moral development (Nucci, 2002). His ideas were influenced by Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and James Mark Baldwin. He argued that experiences shape children's underst ...

(5 pages) 257 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Developmental Theories and How They Relate to Real Life Scenarios

is which person's developmental pattern of development is correct? Erik Erickson, Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget's developmental theories are similar. Each of the theories goes through a human's develo ... o go with the girls and play because he feels that he can identify better with these other children.Jean Piaget's theory of development focuses on the physical aspects of a babies development and the ...

(6 pages) 222 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Child Development- Inside The Mind

have learned many things from many different scientists and without the earlier psychologists like Jean Piaget, we would not know what we are today. The psychologists can use many different research ...

(2 pages) 97 0 4.1 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

A critical Appraisal of Kohlberg's Theory Of Moral Development

kinds of moral reasoning. He also helped to clarify the general cognitive-developmental approach of Jean Piaget, who he studied under, to the analysis of changes in moral reasoning. This marked the be ... ary school. His theory of moral development was dependent on the thinking of the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and the American philosopher John Dewey. He was also inspired by James Mark Baldwin. The ...

(8 pages) 315 3 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's Theory of Cgnitive Development:Discuss the 5 stages of cognitive development

Swiss biologist, Jean Piaget is renowned for constructing a highly influential model of child development and learnin ...

(3 pages) 303 4 3.4 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's Cognitive Development

heory of cognitive development has had more impact than the cognitive stages that Piaget presented. Jean Piaget founded the regulation in its current form and his ideas, methods and findings have shap ... ind that the human spirit goes through a certain number of stages, each different from the other." -Jean Piaget.The first stage that Piaget came up with is the sensory-motor stage. This stage takes pl ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.3 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget vs. Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget both believed that children are active seekers of knowledge. Vygotsky that believed that ... ves yet but can do with the help of more skilled partners.Overall, the theories of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget are seen as different. However, there are some characteristics of each theory that make ...

(1 pages) 148 0 2.6 Oct/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

The Contribution of Jean Piaget to Cognitive Development

Cognitive development is an intellectual growth from infancy to adulthood. Jean Piaget (1896-1980), a Swiss psychologist, was one of the most important and influential researc ... othetical solutions to a problem and the ability to reason about the possible as well as the actual.Jean Piaget made an immeasurable contribution to our knowledge of cognitive development in children. ...

(10 pages) 204 0 4.6 Mar/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Piaget's cognitive development

Jean Piaget was a developmental psychologist in the early half of the nineteenth century. He was fam ...

(4 pages) 137 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Essay about what I thought was the biggest problem I would encounter as a Secondary Education teacher. This is about students finding their self-indentity.

address is that of students finding their own identity. Using three completely different theories: Jean Piaget's States of Cognitive Development, Erik Erikson's Developmental Stages, and Abraham Masl ... t identity/ role confusion is the greatest problem for students in the secondary level.According to Jean Piaget, student at the secondary level would fall in to what he calls the "Formal Operational S ...

(2 pages) 60 0 2.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

The views of Piaget and Gesell on how development occurs

AbstractVery few theorists have impacted and influenced child development as did the work of Jean Piaget and Arnold Gesell. Although they stand at opposite poles, both have recorded facts usefu ... In Psychology, very few theorists have impacted and influenced child development as did the work of Jean Piaget (1896-1980) and Arnold Gesell (1880-1961). Although they stand at opposite poles, both h ...

(6 pages) 94 0 3.8 May/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Rite of Passage

e "Storm and Stress" phase are: parental conflict, disruptions in mood, and behavior that is risky. Jean Piaget, another developmental psychologist thought that this stage of development was due to an ...

(6 pages) 99 0 4.9 Jun/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Cognitive Development

op concepts such as object permanence we will examine the interpretation and the work of infancy of Jean Piaget. Piaget stated that the period from birth to language achievement is marked by un ...

(4 pages) 104 0 3.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology