Chapter 01 of 5
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Piaget's stages — and how much more babies know than he thought.
- The Pioneer
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget spent decades studying how children's thinking develops — starting by closely observing his own three children.
- Big Idea
Children think differently
Piaget argued children aren't just less knowledgeable adults. They think in qualitatively different ways at different ages.
- Stages
Four stages
He proposed four stages of development, from infancy, through early and middle childhood, to adolescence.
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👶 The Developing Mind
- 01Out of Sight, Out of Mind?Piaget's stages — and how much more babies know than he thought.
- 02The Need to Be HeldAttachment — from Harlow's monkeys to how children feel secure.
- 03Reading Other MindsWhen children realise other people can believe different things.
- 04The Language ExplosionHow children go from babbling to thousands of words.
- 05The Teenage BrainWhy adolescence is a brain rebuild, not a malfunction.