In this episode we unpack Swiss Epistemologist and Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget's 1969 book "The Psychology of a Child." This book explores... The Stages of Cognitive Development How Morality develops in the child How and Why Children Play Links to Reading and Other Sources Mentioned The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget A Piaget Primer by Dorothy G. Singer & Tracey A. Revenson Conversations with Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud  Babies (Netflix docuseries) *note* reading is not required to enjoy this episode! Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com Guest: Jeff Micheal-Johnson  Theme Music: Polyenso Timestamps Intro 00:00:00 What Piaget was trying to study 00:05:26 How a Child Learns (Adaptation/Assimilation/Accommodation) 00:09:15 The Stages of Cognitive Development 00:17:04 The Sensory-Motor Stage/Egocentrism 00:24:00 Object Permanence 00:30:42 Language at the Sensory-Motor Stage 00:33:19 Play at the Sensory-Motor stage/Practice Play 00:36:15 The Pre-moral Stage 00:37:32 The Pre-operrational Stage/Superstitious Thinking 00:38:21 Language at the Pre-operational stage/The Monologue 00:43:44 The Collective Monologue 00:46:00 Play at the Pre-operational stage/Parallel Play 00:47:53 Symbolic Play 00:50:57 Animism 00:52:48 Free Play 00:54:20 The Conventional Stage of Morality 00:57:39 Conservation 01:01:18 The Concrete Operations Stage 01:06:36 Language in the Concrete Operations stage 01:07:15 Play at the Concrete Operations stages/Games with Rules 01:10:07 The Autonomous Stage of Morality 01:16:10 The Formal Operations Stage/Abstract Thought 01:18:42 Language at the Formal Operations Stage 01:22:17 Life after the 4 stages of Development 01:22:56 Spiritual Development 01:24:09 Egocentrism vs Egolessness 01:25:30 How the Child Lives on in the Adult 01:27:17