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PIAGET

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.