Definition Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development in children conceptualizes the process of children's intellectual growth (learning) from a biological perspective. Description Piaget's theory is founded on genetic epistemology. His theory is the result of intense investigation, specifically ...
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Since the cognitive and technical skills promoted by traditional education are not enough to be successful in the current job market, and given the demands of the transversal promotion of entrepreneurial culture, the following research question was posed: What entrepreneurial skills should students most...
Basic Biographical Information Jean Piaget was a Swiss-born, French-speaking social scientist whose theory of cognitive development revolutionized the understanding of children's development. Trained as a natural scientist, with a strong emphasis on philosophy, Piaget employed an approach to development ...
emerged—and the term lost much of its original distinctive meaning (as, for example, in G. Suttles, The Social Construction of Community, 1972). In psychology, a linked term—constructivism—is often associated with the work of Jean Piaget, and refers to the process by which the cognitive ...
This process was investigated by Piaget as a theory of cognitive development in the individual and as fundamental in the history of science. In the view proposed, knowledge is constructed through the active intervention of the subject on existing thematic objects of the domain and informed by the...
Description The Uzgiris-Hunt Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development (U-H Scales; Uzgiris & Hunt, 1975 ) are a set of six scales of cognitive development designed for infants from 1 to 24 months of age. Scales were inspired by the work of Piaget (see entry: Piagetian Stages ) and ...
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The contribution of Piaget's theory in understanding the nature of cognitive deficits is discussed. Neodissociation concept of the hidden observer in hypnosis is compared with Freud's concept of the hidden observer in psychosis. The hypnotic assessment situation is viewed as a focalized encounter ...
Description Overshadowed by both his own theory of cognitive development as well as the more elaborate moral development theory of Lawrence Kohlberg (1927–1987), Jean Piaget's theory of moral development has both inspired empirical research and attracted scholarly attention in its own right. While ...