20. Jean Piaget on The Psychology of Children

In this episode we unpack Swiss Epistemologist and Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget's 1969 book "The Psychology of a Child." This book explores... The Stages of Cognitive Development How Morality develops in the child How and Why Children Play 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  Babies (Netflix docuseries) *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