005 - Piaget and Cognitive Development

Let me know what you think! - Jean Piaget's description of cognitive development is markedly different from psychosexual and psychoanalytic approaches.  He was concerned primarily with cognitive abilities.  Instead of basically just making up a complex inner life and mode of relating to mommy’s breast, he described the kinds of cognitive tasks children are actually increasingly able to do as they age.  Unlike Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein and more like Anna Freud and Mahler, he actually studied child development in the real world.  He advanced the science of child psychiatry not by speculating about why children do what they do, but actually describing what they do.Referenced resources can be found within the show transcripts at https://psydactic_caps.buzzsprout.comFeedback can be emailed to [email protected] OR submitted via a form at https://psydactic.com.This is not medical advice.  Please see a licensed physician for any personal questions regarding your own or your child's health.