Cognitive Devolpment

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist who began his research in the 1920s and continued through the 1970s, had an enormous impact on the field of cognitive development. Piaget's theory of development was based on his observations of young children. Although Piaget's writings were complex, his conclusions about the nature of development can be summarized in two parts. A set of fixed stages, and a pair of processes that led the …

…adjust our perceptions to fit our conceptions, we often are forced to adjust our conceptions to fit our perceptions. When assimilation fails, when the world is too dramatically different from what our assumptions tell us it should be, we change our assumptions. Using Piaget's theory on how children develop throughout there early stages in life may help us better understand and realize the way that our complex minds and body’s were created to function.