Piaget's legacy
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Jean Piaget contributes to developmental psychology with his perspectives on cognitive development. Piaget explains children's cognitive growth, showing the constructive and intrinsically motivating nature of children through the assimilation-accommodation and equilibration models. Cognitive structures, proposed by Piaget, present cognitive development clearly. His contributions include empirical discoveries and the introduction of new cognitive concepts and research methods for studying child intellectual growth. Influences of his theories on other fields of psychology are discussed.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1996
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American psychology just before Piaget
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Scientific reports on developmental psychology were few and American developmental psychologists were engaged more in the study of adolescence, before the entry of Jean Piaget's cognitive developement theories. Failure of the simplification theories of learning, the advancement of computer technology, and young psychologists' interests in the early parts of the child's life and psycholinguistics eased Piaget's entry. The Social Science Research Council's conference on Piaget's works in 1960 set the stage for the emergence of Piaget's theories.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1996
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Infants' construction of actions in context: Piaget's contribution to research on early development
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Jean Piaget's emphasis on the interplay between environmental and maturational factors in an infant's cognitive development has elicited research interests in early development. In Piaget's opinion, infants assimilate environmental events to preexisting schemes. Task complexity, contextual and social support, contextual priming, and state of arousal are major factors influencing this assimilation process. Research studies confirm Piaget's theories and better integrate the interaction between environment and maturation.
Publication Name: Psychological Science
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0956-7976
Year: 1996
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