Introduction

Introduction

Throughout the history, researchers have made amazing contribution to the school of psychology. One of these was jean Piaget and his theory on cognitive development.Jean Piaget, the Swiss biologist, philosopher, psychologist, and educationist, is regarded as one of the most important child development researchers of modern times (Hamachek1979). However, historically cognitive development theory has been studied in a variety of ways. Yet Piaget was the first one to formulate the theory of cognitive development. Moreover, he was Very interested in knowledge and how children come to know their world. Therefore, he developed his theory of cognitive development by actually observing children behaviors.The term cognitive means knowing or understanding.On the other hand, cognitive development can be referred as mental development including intelligence and complementary or component as perceiving, recognizing, recalling, and interpreting information, as well as form of reasoning. Piaget was very interested in knowledge and how children come to know their world.

Furthermore, this paper will be discussing about the Jean Piaget theory of cognitive development with detailed aspects, relationship between the different development stages and learning of his theory and also the application of the theory to the classroom teaching.