Editing Jean Piaget (section)

===Sociological model of development===
Piaget first developed as a psychologist in the 1920s. He investigated the hidden side of children's minds. Piaget proposed that children moved from a position of [[egocentrism]] to [[sociocentrism]]. For this explanation he combined the use of psychological and [[clinical method]]s to create what he called a semiclinical [[interview]]. He began the interview by asking children standardized questions and depending on how they answered, he would ask them a series of standard questions. Piaget was looking for what he called "spontaneous conviction" so he often asked questions the children neither expected nor anticipated. In his studies, he noticed there was a gradual progression from intuitive to scientific and socially acceptable responses. Piaget theorized children did this because of the social interaction and the challenge to younger children's ideas by the ideas of those children who were more advanced.

This work was used by [[Elton Mayo]] as the basis for the famous [[Hawthorne effect|Hawthorne Experiments]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=Hsueh, Y. |year=2001|title=Basing much of the reasoning upon the work of Jean Piaget, 1927–1936|journal= Archives de Psychologie|volume= 69|issue=268–269|pages=39–62|url=http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2002-15215-002}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Hsueh, Y. |year=2002|title=The Hawthorne Experiments and the introduction of Jean Piaget in American Industrial Psychology, 1929–1932|journal= History of Psychology|volume= 5|issue=2|pages=163–189|doi=10.1037/1093-4510.5.2.163|pmid=12096759}}</ref> For Piaget, it also led to an honorary doctorate from [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1936.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hsueh | first1 = Y | year = 2004 | title = He sees the development of children's concepts upon a background of sociology": Jean Piaget's honorary degree at Harvard University in 1936 |journal = History of Psychology | volume = 7 | issue = 1| pages = 20–44 | doi = 10.1037/1093-4510.7.1.20 | pmid = 15022668 }}</ref>