Jean Piaget

Born: 9 August 1896 – Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Died: 16 September 1980 – Geneva, Switzerland
Known for: Cognitivism

 Developmental biologist – idea of biological stages and norms

 Studied own children
 Wrote in 1st half of 20th Century

The first is that I had completely forgotten the contents of these rather crude, juvenile
productions; the second is that, in spite of their immaturity they anticipated in a striking
manner what I have been trying to do for about thirty years. 

My one idea, developed under various aspects in (alas!) twenty-two volumes, has been that
intellectual operations proceed in terms of structures-of-the-whole. These structures
denote the kinds of equilibrium toward which evolution in its entirety is striving; at once
organic, psychological and social, their roots reach down as far as biological morphogenesis
itself

Jean Piaget, born in 1896, is an intellectual giant in the field of developmental psychology.
Although he earned his doctoral degree in the natural sciences (primarily biology) in 1918,
his knowledge ranges in great depth through philosopy, religion, sociology, logic,
mathematics, and, of course, psychology. Currently, the major emphases of his research and
writings are on perception and memory experiments and on a complete analysis of the
problems of genetic epistemology. During the past ten to fifteen years, the prolific
contributions of Piaget and his collaborators, with Bärbel Inhelder being the most
prominent and important of these, have attracted the rapt attention of psychologists and
educators in the United States. His name is now well-known here, but the extent of his
contributions is less well-known.

Piaget writes in the way that he thinks

He was interested in both biology and problems of knowledge
Relation between memory and intelligence – (Barbel Inhelder)
Reference:

Bringuier, Jean-Claude, and Jean Piaget. (1989) Conversations with Jean Piaget, University of Chicago
Press. https://books.google.co.uk/books?
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Piaget, J. (1952). Jean Piaget. In E. G. Boring, H. Werner, H. S. Langfeld, & R. M. Yerkes (Eds.), A

History of Psychology in Autobiography, Vol. 4 (p. 237–256). Clark University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1037/11154-011

Piaget, Jean, and Barbel Inhelder. The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children (Psychology Revivals),
Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.  ProQuest Ebook Central
http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1757838.