Jean Piaget
 
Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Piaget worked at the Binet Institute in Paris, where he issued the Binet intelligence test, trying out potential test questions on children.  Piaget realized that the children he questioned gave certain types of wrong answers and that these wrong answers fit patterns from child to child.  He became extremely interested in these patterns that he devoted his work to the study of children's thinking.
 
 
 Sensory Motor
(ages 0-2)
  • preoccupation w/ motor activity
  • no object permanence
Pre-Operational
(ages 2-6)
  • One Dimensional thinking
  • egocentric
  • animistic
  • artificialistic
Concrete Operational
(ages 7-puberty)
  • 2-D thinking
  • understands Law of Conservation
Formal Operational
(beyond puberty)
  • abstract thinking
  • assimilation
  • information placed into categories
  • accomodation
 
 
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