Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

The bulk of the time spent in a new stage consists of refining this new cognitive level however it is not always happening quickly. Behavioural schemata: organized patterns of behaviour that are used to represent and respond to objects and experiences. Psychoanalysis was later rejected by Piaget as he thought it was insufficiently empirical (Mayer 2005).

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Piaget created the International Center for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until his death in 1980. As the Director of the International Bureau of Education he declared in 1934 that "only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse whether violent or gradual. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".