Jean Piaget Quotes on Psychology

4 quotes

  1. Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

  2. I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

  3. During the earliest stages, the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

  4. Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

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