the psychology of intelligence by jean piaget

His early fascination with and competence in the biological sciences, particularly the study of mollusks, continued throughout his lifetime. from the University of Neuchatel in 1918. He was trained as a zoologist, receiving his Ph.D. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Switzerland in the region near Lake Neuchatel. Jean Piaget was the only son of Arthur Piaget, a professor of medieval studies at the University of Neuchatel, and Rebecca Jackson. He took children's thinking seriously and respected them as the architects of their own intellectual development. Piaget's empirical studies of infants, children, and adolescents provided insight into the nature of knowledge and how it is acquired. Piaget is credited with foundational contributions to the emerging disciplines of child psychology, educational psychology, and cognitive development theory. Before he was 30 years of age, he was world renowned for his explorations of the cognitive development of children. He first began his scientific investigations as a young biologist immersed in the study of mollusks. The Swiss psychologist and epistemologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980) developed his theory of genetic epistemology throughout a nearly 60-year career as a professor and experimental researcher. UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL, B.A., 1915, Ph.D., 1918 POSTDOCTORAL STUDY AT UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, AND THE SORBONNE BRIEF OVERVIEW SWISS GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST

The psychology of intelligence by jean piaget