Piaget's Legacy

In my mind Piaget is one of the greatest minds when it comes to psychology. He asked questions that no one had asked before. Questions that made people ask why they had ever asked the old questions in the first place. After Piaget people never looked at children and they way they developed in the same way ever again. Although he did most of his work in the 50's, they didn't catch on till the 60's.

Today almost anything to do with developmental psychology has something to do with the questions Piaget asked. His views on cognitive development allowed us to see their development in a step by step process; which led us to see children not as blank slates.Piaget helped us to accept the idea that children's cognitive behavior is intrinsically rather than extrinsically motivated. Children basically think and learn because thats the way they are built.