Biography of Jean Piaget

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After two years as a failed writer, Skinner applied to Harvard University to earn his Ph.D. in psychology. Early career (100-150 words) Throughout his college years, Skinner connected with William Crozier, his mentor and the chairman of the Physiology Department. Crozier challenged psychology’s mindset of focusing only on the individual’s mind. He encouraged Skinner to experiment with animals from a more holistic perspective. After earning his degree from Harvard in 1931, Skinner stayed as a researcher for five more years.

Author had a passionate dedication to his studies, a train that Jean began to emulate from the early age. Jean attended Neuchatel Latin High School at the age of 11, while attending that school he wrote a short scientific paper on albino sparrow. By the time he was a teenager his papers on mollusks were being published widely. Jeans readers were unaware of his age and considered him an expert on the topic. After high school Piaget went to study zoology at the University of Neuchatel, receiving his Ph.D. in the natural sciences in 1918.

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During high school he was granted a part-time job at Neuchâtel’s Museum of Natural History where he helped classify and study their collection of mollusks (Boeree n.d.). He was exceptionally good at his job that after he graduated, he was offered a job at a history museum in Geneva, Switzerland, but he refused in order to continue his education at Neuchâtel University (Jean Piaget Biography n.d.). At age 22, Piaget graduated from the University of Neuchâtel with a Ph.D. in Science. Soon after his graduation, Piaget stated to become interested in psychology (Presnell 1999) Piaget directed many successful studies of childhood psychology th... ... middle of paper ... ...://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/piaget.htm “Switzerland’s Industrialization” n.d. History of Switzerland. WEBSITE accessed March, 20 2012. http://history-switzerland.geschichte-schweiz.ch/industrialization-switzerland.html “Switzerland” n.d. Switzerland.

Binet's next area of interest could be considered a precursor to some of Piaget's work with child psychology and began with the systematic observation of his two daughters, to whom he devoted much of his time, studying and writing about. It was at this point, that Binet "came to realize that individual differences had to be systematically explored before one could determine laws which would apply to all people"(Pollack,p.xii). Soon after, Binet was nominated co-director and one year later, became director of the Laboratory of Physiological Psychology at the Sorbonne. He and Beaunis, also co-director, initiated and edited the first French psychological journal 'L'Annee Psychologique', which remains in press today. Although never having attained a professorship in his own country (a bitter disappointment for the proud nationalist) Binet did spend one spring in Bucharest where his knowledge in experimental psychology was fully appreciated

After he had finished this research, he began devoting his time to the nervous system. When Freud began his practice of medicine, he realized he had a gift to specialize in nervous disorders. He went to Paris for a year studying Charcoat's method of treatment. Freud was disappointed to find that the hypnosis would work for only a short period of time. Freud then began studying a man Joseph Breuer.