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Variations of experiments like this one, examining infant attention, have been a standard tool of developmental psychology ever since the Swiss pioneer of the field, Jean Piaget, started experimenting on his children in the 1920s. Piaget's work led him to conclude that infants younger than 9 months have no innate knowledge of how the world works or any sense of "object permanence" (that people and things still exist even when they're not seen). Instead, babies must gradually construct this knowledge from experience. Piaget's "constructivist" theories were massively influential on postwar educators and psychologists, but over the past...
...brands love India. Jimmy Choo and Gucci are just the latest makers of luxury goods to target India as the next hot growth market, joining Herm?s, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Piaget, Tiffany, Moschino and others. Last October, Chanel launched its brand by organizing an exhibition and haute couture extravaganza in New Delhi's tony Imperial Hotel with models flown in from Paris. That same month, Swatch Group introduced its Breguet watches (average price: $30,000) to India, which it hails as one of the world's most enticing growth markets. In January, the Indian government gave upscale retailers...
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...sense of mathematical principles from objects found in the natural world," says Jane M. Healy, an educational psychologist and author of Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Mind--and What We Can Do About It. This philosophy--championed most famously by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget--explains the near ubiquity of counting rods and beads, known in academic circles as manipulatives, in most grade-school classrooms. As kids approach adolescence, however, they may be ready for slightly more abstract methods of learning, and computers may offer just what they need...
Psychologists like Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget (who were more than interested in how the child develops) concluded that obsession is a normal part of growing up. First, obsessed with dolls and baseball stats. Later, obsessed with political systems, religions, ideologies. In the 1970s little Stevie Jobs and Billy Gates were taken with computers. Why? Because these microcosms of interest gave them worlds they could inhabit and control? Maybe...