Psychologists' Compare and Contrast

Psychologists' Compare And Contrast –

Jean Piaget & Sigmund Freud

Similarities and differences

Jean Piaget was a philosopher and developmental Swiss psychologist who is widely known for the epistemology studies relating children. Piaget’s theory of epistemology and cognitive development are both referred to as genetic epistemology.  Jean Piaget’s specific concern was on cognitive or intellectual development of a child and manner in which minds progress and process knowledge. Piaget’s fundamental thesis was based on the fact that children’s first grow theories of self-centric about the environment they are living in or about persons and objects in that environment. Secondly, children normally base the theories on the personal experiences that they go through while interacting with objects and persons in the environment. Thirdly, the child uses ‘Schemas’ in order to master or gain information regarding the environment. Lastly, sophistication of any child cognitive structure intensifies as a child develops as it did with a child’s schemas.  A child’s schema is a tool case of responses and actions to make things happen, initiating with rudimentary connections like grabbing or mouthing items and finally progress towards extremely sophisticated skills like scientific observation.

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, is the naissance father of the process of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud’s main concerns were psychoanalysis which is a clinic methodology of treating psychopathology done by means of dialogue between patients and psychoanalysts.  Freud came up with therapeutic techniques like using free associations whereby patients convey their thought or ideas without reservations, and this is done in any order that they spontaneously occurred.  Freud came to the finding that the dreams of the patients could be successfully analyzed in order to reveal the complexity in the structuring of the unconscious information and later...