Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development and Adult Character Structure
Abstract
Psychoanalytic and Piagetian findings are bridged by understanding character structure. Social cognition of the three character types corresponds to three phases of cognitive development: Symbolic, Intuitive, and (Concrete) Operational. A child constructs his superego by coordinating his perceptions of his caretaking as he coordinates other perceptions in the Operational Period.
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