Foundations of the Mind

by Subbotsky, Eugene V.

• ISBN13: 9780674311879
• ISBN10: 0674311876
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-04-01
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
The ontogenesis of individual consciousness as a scientific problem	p. 1
The fundamental structures of consciousness	p. 4
The spheres of the reality of consciousness	p. 8
The levels of behaviour and the planes of representing reality	p. 12
The properties and functions of the spheres of reality of consciousness	p. 15
The structure of everyday reality	p. 17
Unusual reality: Its structure and types	p. 23
Spontaneous unusual reality	p. 24
Unspontaneous unusual reality	p. 27
Existentialization as the work of consciousness	p. 29
The study of existentialization in children	p. 32
Aims of the research	p. 39
The development of the stable object concept in ontogenesis	p. 42
The development of object permanence in childhood	p. 44
The development of object permanence in adulthood	p. 55
The ontogenesis of the causality notion	p. 79
The 'natural' and 'animistic' modes of assimilation of reality in children	p. 84
Phenomenalistic and physical causality in the preschooler's mind: a struggle for dominance	p. 96
Studies with older children and adults	p. 105
The development of the notions of space and time in a child	p. 112
The experimental study of understanding of certain fundamental structures of space and time in preschoolers	p. 117
Individual consciousness as a system of realities	p. 126
Bibliography	p. 146
Subject Index	p. 155
Name Index	p. 160
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