| Description |
1 online resource (477 pages) |
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Psychology Revivals |
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Psychology revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Cognitive Development and Learning Theory; 1. Concepts of Conservation of Continuous Quantities: From Observation to Inference; 2. From One-to-One Correspondence to the Conservation of Physical Quantities; 3. From Numerical Equality to the Conservation of Matter; 4. Verbal Training Procedure for Conservation of Continuous Quantities; 5. Cross-Cultural Study of Conservation Concepts: Continuous Quantities and Length |
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6. From Elementary Number Conservation to the Conservation of Length7. Class Inclusion Training and Its Influence on Conservation; 8. Conservation Learning and Its Influence on Class Inclusion; Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child. In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years' research of the Geneva School, the authors carried the pioneering investigations of Jean Piaget to a new and remarkable level. As Piaget said in his foreword to the book: 'The novelty of the findings, the clarity of the theoretical interpretation, and the sometimes even excessive caution of the concl |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognition in children.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental -- Lifespan Development.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
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Cognition in children.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sinclair, Hermine, author
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Bovet, Magali, author
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Wedgewood, Susan, translator
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| ISBN |
9781317673880 |
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1317673883 |
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