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JESSICA It is
remarkable that Piaget wrote and published his first scientific paper on his
observations of an albino sparrow and by 15 his several publications on
mollusks and gained him a reputation among European Zoologists who all
believed that he was an adult.
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In his work Piaget
identified the child’s four stages of mental growth. His researches in
developmental psychology and genetic epistemology had one unique goal.
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After a semester spent at
the University of Zurich where he developed an interest for psychoanalysis
and intelligence testing, Piaget spent one year working at the Ecole de la
rue de la Grange–aux–Belles, a boy’s institution created by Alfred Binet.
There he standardized Burt’s test of intelligence and did his first
experimental studies of the growing mind.
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The interest of Jean Piaget
in cognitive development began when he started working with Theodore Simon in
his Paris Laboratory for preparation of intelligence tests. He was required
to administer intelligence tests to children in order to try and establish
better test norms. During his work, Piaget found himself becoming more
interested in the quality of children’s answer to questions rather than how
many they got wrong or right. Then Piaget became interested with reasoning
process that lay behind the answers that children gave. After that, work of
Piaget was solely focused on cognitive development, which he continued to
study till his death.
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In Paris, Piaget devised and
administered reading tests to school children and he became interested in
child language development and what types of errors they made. These studies,
lead him to explore the reasoning process in children.
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Piaget worked on cognitive
development of the child. The influence of Jean Piaget’s work has not fallen
short of that of Freud. He spent most of his life directing an institute of
child development in Geneva.
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