Jean Piaget
Throughout history, many people have made amazing contributions to the school of
psychology.One of these was Jean Piaget and his theories on the cognitive development stages.
Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland. Here he studied at the university and received a doctorate in biology at the age of 22. Following his schooling he became increasingly
interested in psychology and began much research and studying of the subject. From this
research Piaget created a broad theoretical system for the development of cognitive abilities.
His work, in this way, was much like that of Sigmund Freud, but Piaget emphasized the ways
that children think and acquire knowledge.
Piaget referred to his theory as genetic epistemology. This is defined as the study of the
acquisition, modification, and growth of abstract ideas and the abilities as on the basis of an
inherited or biological substrate, an intelligent functioning that makes the growth of abstract......
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