Abstract:
Although Jean Piaget could legitimately lay claim to being a psychologist, logician,
biologist and philosopher, he is perhaps best understood as a genetic epistemologist. Like
Freud, Piaget has created a new discipline which, while closely aligned with psychology,
nonetheless goes beyond it in its implications for and interactions with other scientific
disciplines.
The psychological development starts at birth and terminates m adulthood is
comparable to organic growth. Like the latter, it consists essentially of activity directed
toward equilibrium. Just as the body evolves toward a relatively stable level characterized
by the complication of the growth process and by organ maturity, so mental life can be
conceived as evolving toward a final form of equilibrium represented by the adult mind.
Piaget's studies indicate that a child passes six stages between 14 years since the
birth. The variable structures motor or intellectual on the one hand and effective on the other,
art the organizational forms of mental activity. They are organized along two dimensions,
like that interpersonal and social. for greater clarity we shall distinguish six stages or periods
of development which mark the appearance of these successively constructed structures.
This research therefore is proof that Piaget is indeed one of the greatest psychologist of our
time.
