In this episode we unpack Swiss Epistemologist and Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget's 1969 book "The Psychology of a Child."
This book explores...
Links to Reading and Other Sources Mentioned
The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget
A Piaget Primer by Dorothy G. Singer & Tracey A. Revenson
Conversations with Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
*note* reading is not required to enjoy this episode!
Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com
Guest: Jeff Micheal-Johnson
Theme Music: Polyenso
Timestamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:05:26 What Piaget was trying to study
00:09:15 How a Child Learns (Adaptation/Assimilation/Accommodation)
00:17:04 The Stages of Cognitive Development
00:24:00 The Sensory-Motor Stage/Egocentrism
00:30:42 Object Permanence
00:33:19 Language at the Sensory-Motor Stage
00:36:15 Play at the Sensory-Motor stage/Practice Play
00:37:32 The Pre-moral Stage
00:38:21 The Pre-operrational Stage/Superstitious Thinking
00:43:44 Language at the Pre-operational stage/The Monologue
00:46:00 The Collective Monologue
00:47:53 Play at the Pre-operational stage/Parallel Play
00:50:57 Symbolic Play
00:52:48 Animism
00:54:20 Free Play
00:57:39 The Conventional Stage of Morality
01:01:18 Conservation
01:06:36 The Concrete Operations Stage
01:07:15 Language in the Concrete Operations stage
01:10:07 Play at the Concrete Operations stages/Games with Rules
01:16:10 The Autonomous Stage of Morality
01:18:42 The Formal Operations Stage/Abstract Thought
01:22:17 Language at the Formal Operations Stage
01:22:56 Life after the 4 stages of Development
01:24:09 Spiritual Development
01:25:30 Egocentrism vs Egolessness
01:27:17 How the Child Lives on in the Adult
