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ONE OF PIAGET'S MOST IMPORTANT EARLY WORKS,
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This review is from: Origins of Intelligence in Children (Paperback)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are known as "genetic epistemology".
He writes in his Foreword to the Second Edition, "This work ... was followed by The Construction of Reality in the Child and was to have been completed by a study of the genesis of imitation in the child ... these works form one entity dedicated to the beginnings of intelligence, that is to say, to the various manifestations of sensorimotor intelligence and to the most elementary forms of expression. The theses developed in this volume ... concern in particular the formation of the sensorimotor schemata and the mechanism of mental assimilation..." Here are some representative quotations from the book: "Intelligence presents, on the contrary, a remarkable continuity with the acquired or even inborn process on which it depends and at the same times makes use of." "But the great psychological lesson of these beginnings of behavior is that, within the limits we have just defined, the experimental trial of a reflex mechanism already entails the most complicated accommodations, assimilations and individual organizations. Accommodation exists because, even without retaining anything from the envirionment as such, the reflex mechanism needs the environment." "Association and habit form the automatization of an activity which functionally prepares intelligence while yet differing from it by a more elementary structure." "In short, the theory of pure groping makes of the discovery of new procedures a simple accommodation, thus neglecting the formal coordination belonging to assimilation: hence this theory is analogous to an empiricism ascribing invention to experience alone and neglecting the activity of the mind." "We are consequently confronted by the most delicate problem which any theory of intelligence has to treat: that of the power of invention." "In short, at every level, experience is necessary to the development of intelligence." "(I)f experience appears to be one of the conditions necessary to the development of intelligence, study of the first stages of that development invalidates the empirical conception of experience." "Also, experience is never simply passive receptiveness: it is active accomodation, correlative to assimilation."
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This book is being used for my PhD work and has been a great source of information regarding Jean Piaget's work on human development.
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