PPT-Piaget and His Theory of Animism

By Alexandra Bartkus and Caitlin Cahill Objectives of this Presentation After this presentation the audience will have Knowledge about Jean Piaget A basic understanding of Piagets stages of cognitive development. Edgar Jibran Molina Amado. Foreign. . L. anguage. What. . is. . it. ?. Animism . is . the worldview that non-human . entities, such . as animals, plants, and inanimate . objects, possess . a spiritual . Animists believe that everything in nature has a spirit. A rock has a spirit. A river has a spirit. The earth has a spirit.. Animism is still practiced in parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.. Animism Animism Animism Animism COPY xecution in “Old Sparky,” Sing-Sing Prison’s electric chair. c1900. William M. Van der Weyde. (Library of Congress). Animism Animism der to r Cognitive Development. Jean Piaget- Swiss Developmental Psychologist. Sensorimotor Stage (0-2 years). Acquire knowledge through direct experience and manipulation.. Actively exploring physical environment leads to cognitive development.. Fresh start, new semester… . Write down some goals for the next 90 days—how do you want to leave HS? . Write down some achievements that have gotten you this far. . Write down some ways that you have been successful, and how to continue to do so. . Presented by:. Margaret Boyd. Colby Madrigal. Jean Piaget. Born in Neuch. â. tel,Switzerland on August 9. th. , 1896.. Known for being the pioneer for studies involving child development, beginning in the 1920s. Breana McCormack. Child Growth & Development. Jean Piaget. Born in 1896 . in Neuchâtel, . Switzerland. Died in 1980. Studied . at the University of Neuchâtel and briefly at University of Zurich.. Presented by: . Kasey Buchanan. Sarah Hughes. Jean Piaget. Born: 1896, in Neuch. âtel, Switzerland. At age 10, he published an article on the albino sparrow. At age 15, Piaget set out to find a way to connect his philosophy with science. Started his work in epistemology (philosophical questions concerning the origin of knowledge). 1896 - 1980. Jean Piaget, the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist, spent much of his professional life listening to children, watching children and poring over reports of researchers around the world who were doing the same. He found, to put it most succinctly, that children don't think like grownups. After thousands of interactions with young people often barely old enough to talk, Piaget began to suspect that behind their cute and seemingly illogical utterances were thought processes that had their own kind of order and their own special logic.. Theory of Conservation. Lisa Saman. Jean William Fritz Piaget (1896-1980). Born in Neuchâtel. , . Switzerland on 9 . August . 1896. Died . 16 September . 1980. Began to study children in 1920. Studied behaviors of his own children. Scientific research has supported Piaget’s most fundamental idea: that infants, young children, and older children use distinct cognitive abilities to construct their understanding of the world. . How it is the Structure and Function of Cognition Unfolds. How it is the Structure and Function of Cognition Unfolds. 1. Born in Switzerland.. 2. Worked with some “heavyweights” in France.. 3. Concerned with manipulative behavior of children-- how they come to know things.. Intellectual . Development. Cognitive perspective Jean Piaget. Background to the study - Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development. Piaget thought that intellectual development happened in stages, and that a child would only go on to the next stage once it had completely mastered the first one. . Development . =. sequence of age-related changes that occur as person progresses from conception - death.. Progress Before Birth: Prenatal . Development. Zygote = a . one-celled organism formed by the union of a sperm and an .