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Piaget

Piaget

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Swiss psychologist who studied how children learn and think
  • proper noun
  • /piˈɑːʒeɪ/
: Piaget
  • The conceptualization for this investigation was based on Piaget's (1962) three stages of play: sensorimotor, symbolic, and games-with-rules.
  • Jean Piaget
  • Piaget's theory
  • Piaget's stages

And this process of making the sensory data fit into your model structure is what Piaget calls the assimilation.

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Examples

  • The combinatorial task, adapted from Piaget and Inhelder (1958), was the main measure of problem solving.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The purpose of education, according to Piaget, was the development of autonomy (Kamii, 1985).

    Academic text (1994)

  • Teachers and parents working with elementary school children need to be aware of Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

    Academic text (1990)

  • However, the universals stressed by Piaget were the functional and structural aspects of cognitive development.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Generally, Piaget's and Vygotsky's perspectives provide views of the relationships between play and literacy.

    Academic text (2008)

  • During this stage, the child is learning to think abstractly and reason logically (Piaget, 1983).

    Academic text (2012)

  • Additionally, students are prompted to consider how developmental theorists Piaget and Vygotsky would have handled the situation faced in the case study.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Vygotsky had few arguments with Piaget's stages of development, but he rejected the underlying genetically determined sequential order.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Children's Minds, 8 showed convincingly that Piaget underestimated children's cognitive abilities across a number of domains.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The pioneering Swiss psychologist Piaget studied how children think and learn.

Synonyms

Jean Piaget
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Swiss psychologist who studied how children think and learn

is the shorter family-name form referring to the same person

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Piaget is a Swiss family name, best known as the name of Jean Piaget, the psychologist who studied how children think and learn. A helpful way to remember Piaget is to link it with 'child development' and 'stages' of thinking, because his work made those ideas famous.