Have you ever wondered about the cognitive
development of the child ?, well, then I will tell you about the life of a
person who raised this question, and besides this he answered his name is Jean
William Fritz Piaget, better known as Piaget.
Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in
1896 and died in Geneva, in 1980. This epistemologist became interested very
early in biology, so much so that, at the age of twenty he graduated from the
University of Switzerland.
After time, he worked in psychological
institutions in Zurich, where he developed his theory about the nature of
knowledge, and based on the growth of his children to elaborate the theory of
sensorimotor intelligence, better known as the Piagetian theory; where he gave
account of the spontaneous development of practical intelligence, based on
action, which is formed from the concepts that the child has of objects in
space and their causes.
Throughout the development of his theory, I
pose the four stages that in the development of the child are very important
and should go in a sequential order such as, the sensory-motor stage, which is
the first stage where the child begins to develop everything related to corporal
shapes; the second was the pre-operative, which basically begins when the child
begins to discover the meaning of ''THE I'';
the third stage was that of concrete operations, where the child is able to
perform mathematical operations and basic processes and finally the stage of
concrete operations, where the child has obtained the ability to perform more
complex operations, and his ability to reason it’s greater also known as
abstract operations.
The
development of the Piagetian theory has been of great importance in psychology
since, from this we can understand the stages of child development and the
birth of intelligence; his contributions were so important that, in his honor,
it is celebrated today at a world level, every September of every year on the
day of the PsychopedagogY and from here the recognition given to Piaget as the
father of psychology.
Throughout his life he achieved great
achievements such as being appointed director of the International Office of
Education at UNESCO. He also created the International Center for Genetic
Epistemology in Geneva, which he directed until his death in 1980. He received
the Erasmus Award (1972), (recognition granted only to people who leave great
discoveries in Europe) and 11 others. international awards
He has also written some autobiographies such
as In E. Boring (Ed) History of psychology in autobiography. Vol. 4. Worcester,
MA: Clark University Press, among others. And some works like:
The representation of the world in the child
(1926)
Language and thought in the child (1931)
The judgment and reasoning in the child (1933)
The moral criterion in the child (1934) among
others.
In conclusion, we can see all the contributions
that Piaget left for psychology and how important they were to understand the
principles of intelligence among others. Addition to them, I considered necessary
write in a different language to give to known important person through the
world.
