20. Jean Piaget on The Psychology of Children from Unpacking Ideas

20. Jean Piaget on The Psychology of Children

1 hour 30 minutes Posted Aug 8, 2022 at 4:00 pm.

Intro 

What Piaget was trying to study 

How a Child Learns (Adaptation/Assimilation/Accommodation) 

The Stages of Cognitive Development 

The Sensory-Motor Stage/Egocentrism 

Object Permanence 

Language at the Sensory-Motor Stage 

Play at the Sensory-Motor stage/Practice Play 

The Pre-moral Stage 

The Pre-operrational Stage/Superstitious Thinking 

Language at the Pre-operational stage/The Monologue 

The Collective Monologue 

Play at the Pre-operational stage/Parallel Play 

Symbolic Play 

Animism 

Free Play 

The Conventional Stage of Morality 

Conservation 

The Concrete Operations Stage 

Language in the Concrete Operations stage 

Play at the Concrete Operations stages/Games with Rules 

The Autonomous Stage of Morality 

The Formal Operations Stage/Abstract Thought 

Language at the Formal Operations Stage 

Life after the 4 stages of Development 

Spiritual Development 

Egocentrism vs Egolessness 

How the Child Lives on in the Adult 

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In this episode we unpack Swiss Epistemologist and Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget's 1969 book "The Psychology of a Child."

This book explores...

The Stages of Cognitive Development

How Morality develops in the child

How and Why Children Play

Links to Reading and Other Sources Mentioned

The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget

A Piaget Primer by Dorothy G. Singer & Tracey A. Revenson

Conversations with Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

Babies (Netflix docuseries)

*note* reading is not required to enjoy this episode!

Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jeff Micheal-Johnson

Theme Music: Polyenso

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