Question

The book named "The language and thought of the child" is written by:

• A. Noam Chomsky
• B. Lev Vygotsky
• C. Jean Piaget
• D. Skinner

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Jean Piaget

The Language and Thought of the Child is a translation of Piaget's first important work from 1923, which was the first of a two-part study of "child logic" (I'm now following up with the second part), based on investigations Piaget and his fellow-teachers carried out at the Institut Jean-Jaques Rousseau, a teacher

Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980) was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental theorist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development, and his epistemological view called "genetic epistemology." In 1955, he created the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva and directed it until his death in 1980. According to Ernst von Glasersfeld, Jean Piaget was "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing."