Jean Piaget
Biography
Best Known For
Found the stages of mental devolopment called schema. Also created the fields of cogintive theory and developmental psychology.
Occupation: Psychologist and Biologist
Birth Date: August 9th, 1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Death Date: September 16th, 1980
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This test was measure a child's intellegence and draw connections between a child's age and the nature of his errors.
Schema
During the "concrete operational stage," children 8–11 develop cognitively through the use of logic that is based on concrete evidence. "Formal operations," the fourth and final stage, involves 12-to-15-year-olds forming the ability to think abstractly. Piaget called his collective theories on child development "Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology."