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Psychologist

Swiss psychologist and the founder of the theory of cognitive development. Piaget's research has had a profound impact on fields such as educational psychology and child psychology.

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Famous Jean Piaget Quotes

“Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.”

Reality Would Be Existence Impossible Structure Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

“During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.”

Wells Social Stage Remains Surface Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

“If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.”

Ifs Mind Long States Dream Hands Awareness Movement Baby Pure Make Sense Paradox State Of Mind Waking Autistic Accommodations

Author:Jean Piaget

“Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.”

Play Science Chance Roles Genius Discovery Intelligent Revelations Peculiar Meaningless Scientific Discovery Accommodations

Book:Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works

Source: Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works

“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”

Materials Acquisition Assimilation Accommodations

Book:The Construction of Reality in the Child

Source: The Construction of Reality in the Child

About the Author

Born: August 9, 1896
Died: September 16, 1980
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 77

Books & Sources

The Moral Judgement of the ChildRelated source material

The Construction of Reality in the ChildRelated source material

Dialogue with Jean PiagetRelated source material

Biology and Knowledge: An Essay on the Relations between Organic Regulations and Cognitive ProcessesRelated source material

Conversations with Jean PiagetRelated source material

Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected WorksRelated source material

Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of KnowledgeRelated source material

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