An examination of Jean Piaget and his life's work.

1. Jean Piaget and his Theories: Cognitive Development and Epistemology

3. Through play, children assimilate information into their schemas, and accommodate to their surroundings. Play Is Essential To the development Of the the human mind.

4. Top Left: Albino Sparrow Top Right: Mollusk (snail) Bottom: Museum of Natural History in Neuchatel

5. Differentiating the part from the whole.

6. Piaget and His Family. Piaget and His Wife, Valentine.

7. Assimilation = Ball Going Thru Net. Accommodation = Person Shooting Ball.

8. Assimilation Accommodation A balance Creates Equilibrium. An imbalance Creates Disequilibrium.

9. Sensory Motor (Birth-2) Preoperational (2-7) Concrete Operations (7-11) Formal Operations (11-16) The Stages Of Cognitive Development : “ Object Permanence ” “ Egocentrism” “ Interiorized Action” “ Abstract Thought”

11. Sensory Motor Substages (1-3) Random and Reflex Actions (1st substage): “ Random but Important.” Primary Circular Reactions (2nd substage): “ The recognition of shapes, objects and faces.” Secondary Circular Reactions (3rd substage): “ Imitation.”

12. Sensory Motor Substages (4-6) Coordination of secondary schemata (4th substage): “ Intent. Object Independence. Symbolic Thought.” Tertiary circular reactions (5th substage): “ Rapid expansion of Schema.” New Means through new combinations (6th substage): “ Thought before action.”

13. Preoperational Stage (2-7) Key Terms and Concepts: “ Egocentric behavior” “ transductive reasoning” “ syncretic thought” “ juxtaposition reasoning” “ animism” “ artificialism” Preconceptual Stage (ages two to four) Preceptual or Intuitive Thought Period ( ages four to seven)

14. Preconceptual Stage (2-4) In the Preconceptual stage the child begins to use language and mental images, and attempts to generalize in illogical ways.

15. Preceptual/Intuitive Thought Period (4-7) In the Period of Intuitive Thought , Problem-solving depends on instinctive Thought and appearances, not on judgment Or reasoning.

17. Formal Operations (11, or 12 -->) “ Operate on Operations” “ Think about thought rather than about concrete things.” -- Hypotheses

18. Epistemology is simply The development of Knowledge or logical Structures over time. How do we come to know what we know? Development is continuous and consistent.