Jean Piaget Flashcards
After earning a doctorate in Zoology in his hometown in Switzerland, he went to explore the field of psychology because according to him humans like living organisms adapt to their environmen
Jean Piaget
Theory of Cognitive Development
Jean Piaget
to refer to the child’s cognitive structure or framework of thought.
Schemata
is the process of thinking, knowing and perceiving
Cognition
The child’s interaction with the environment comprises:
Assimilation
Accomodation
Organization
involves taking in the experiences from the from the environment
Assimilation
occurs when what is taken in from the environment does not match the existing structure and thus changes the structure to match the new information
Accomodation
is the process of placing one’s ideas into a coherent state of order
Organization
4 Major Stages in the Cognitive Development
Sensorimotor period
Pre operational period
Period of concrete operation
Period of formal operation
Sensorimotor age
0-2
Pre operational age
2-7
at the end of this stage, reasoning becomes intuitive. The child begins
Pre operational period
Concrete operations age
7-11
self-exploration of objects
Sensorimotor period
Formal operations
11 yrs to adulthood
The child begins to work with problems of weight, length, size and time
Pre operational period
sort, classify, order and organize facts of the world.
Period of Concrete Operations
Collects everything and classify
Period of concrete operations
Able to deal with abstract symbols, solve problems, develop hypotheses, test them and reach conclusion.
Period of formal operations
Swiss Psychiatrist. He believed that libido was broadly derived from life energy not just from sex
Carl gustav Jung
Austrian psychologist/ Psychotherapist- first student of Freud o ‘birth trauma’ causes primal anxiety
Otto Rank
Swiss born American psychiatrist. Originator of the word ‘mental hygiene
Adolf Meyer
Emphasizes on considering the total individual from all points of view ‘HOLISM’
Adolf meyer
Austrian Psychologist . Coined the word ‘inferiority complex’
Alfred Adler
Emphasized ego rather than sexuality.
Alfred Adler
