Piaget’s Developmental Model in Relevance to Personality Development

Piaget was interested in how children went through stages during the phases of their personality development. He took a uniquely sociological approach to exploring the possibilities that revolve around how young minds are developed. He used his own children as the basis for many of his views and spent a lot of time just watching them in order to develop concepts that are now highly regarded in the psychological school of thought. He would also ask children a variety of questions that adhered to a specific frame work. He would then throw in a question that the child was unlikely to expect in order to gauge their reasoning and reaction to an unexpected situation.

Personality development in regards to Piaget’s research stipulates that a child must go through phases of learning in order to build upon knowledge that has been previously learnt. It was his belief that a child must grasp the basic concepts before moving on to more advanced theories as they were relevant to the same topic. This can be seen in the way that we teach children math. First they learn to count. After this they are learnt to recognize the numbers. Then you can start teaching children how to perform basic arithmetic. This continues until you start to get to more advanced mathematical constructs such as algebra – after this you can move onto even more advanced concepts such as calculus.

Piaget was considered a pioneer in the field of personality development. His methods are still in use all over the world. Fields that use his theories are things such as business development, the education system and psychoanalysis. Piaget also studied the developmental phases that an infant goes through prior to reaching middle childhood. He was also interested in the developmental cycle of children who had little external interaction with the world.

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