activity both gives rise to and unites physiological and psychological phenomena. The tension between the physiological approach endorsed by AL and the biological ‘constructivism’ of Piaget appears to reflect a deeper epistemological rift. Piaget endeavoured to overcome the deficiencies of empiricist–mechanistic and idealistic–vitalistic accounts to explain the development of intelligence. AL a...

Klahr Slater and Quinn Piaget chapter FINAL.docx 2 The Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) remains unchallenged as the most influential developmental psychologist in history. Indeed, as one prominent researcher put it over 25 years ago, " Before Piaget began his work, no recognizable field of cognitive development existed " (Siegler, 1986 ,pp 21-22). The vast sweep of Piaget's theories, ...

Contrary to the assumptions of those who pair Dewey and Piaget based on progressivism’s recent history, Dewey shared broader concerns with Vygotsky (whose work he never read). Both Dewey and Vygotsky emphasized the role of cultural forms and meanings in perpetuating higher forms of human thought, whereas Piaget focused on the role played by logical and mathematical reasoning. On the other hand,...

Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology and Artl$cial Intelligence can be of great use to each other, since the strengths of each approach complement the weaknesses of the other. Two ways of bringing the two approaches together are suggested: elaborating the parallels between them (such as the concept of schemata), and building AI models based directly on Piaget’s theory. How this mighl benejit AI is ill...

This paper describes an exploratory study observing the use of Minecraft (a popular sandbox style online video game environment) in a high school English literature classroom. We use Piaget and Inhelder’s (1969) constructivist theories about the formal operational stage of development to interpret the concepts of plot and characterization in three student produced films that were created within...

Jean Piaget was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, on August 9, 1896. His father, Arthur Piaget, was a professor of medieval literature with an interest in local history. His mother, Rebecca Jackson, was intelligent and energetic, but Jean found her a bit neurotic -an impression that he said led to his interest in psychology, but away from pathology! The oldest child, he was quite independent and ...

Artificial Life is the study of all phenomena of the living world through their reproduction in artificial systems. We argue that Artificial Life models of evolution and development offer a new set of theoretical and methodological tools for investigating Piaget’s ideas. The concept of an Artificial Life Neural Network (ALNN) is first introduced, and contrasted with the study of other recent ap...

thought learned science concepts more readily if concrete objects were used. However, students still in the the concrete stage failed to comprehend these ideas despite the use of models. Activities also may be too simple; Inskeep (1972) cautioned against the overuse of manipulation after the students were capable of abstract reasoning. Necessity of Social Interaction Piaget viewed social intera...