Piaget Jean Cognitive Development. Piaget s 1936 theory of cognitive development explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world. According to piaget 1920 cognitive development of adolescents aged 12 years and above is at the stage of formal operation stage the last stage of the stages of cognitive development.
The main objective of piaget has described the process of human thinking. According to jean piaget not everyone reaches optimal cognitive and moral development. Piaget believed that there is a connection between cognitive and moral development.
In the 1960s and 1970s as freudian and jungian psychology were rapidly being replaced by more empirical methods of studying human behavior a swiss philosopher and psychologist named jean piaget 1896 1980 stepped in to offer a new theory of cognitive development.
In the 1960s and 1970s as freudian and jungian psychology were rapidly being replaced by more empirical methods of studying human behavior a swiss philosopher and psychologist named jean piaget 1896 1980 stepped in to offer a new theory of cognitive development. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment. Piaget believed that there is a connection between cognitive and moral development. Jean piaget s theory is one of the influential theories of all time.