An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology

by Beard,R.M.

• ISBN13: 9780415402293
• ISBN10: 0415402298
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Glossary	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
The development of intelligence	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Basic cognitive processes	p. 2
Development in children's thinking	p. 7
The main periods of development	p. 15
Experiments in England	p. 17
The sensori-motor period	p. 18
Reflex exercises and primary circular reactions	p. 19
The secondary circular reactions	p. 21
Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality	p. 22
Co-ordination of secondary schemas	p. 24
Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality	p. 26
Tertiary circular reactions	p. 28
Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality	p. 30
The invention of new means through mental combinations	p. 32
Discussion	p. 35
The pre-conceptual sub-stage	p. 39
Imitation, play and rules	p. 42
Reasoning in the young child	p. 46
Implications for Nursery School teachers	p. 51
The intuitive sub-stage	p. 57
Imitation, play and rules	p. 60
The beginning of conceptual thinking	p. 63
Concepts of the world and of physical causality	p. 63
Number, time and quantities	p. 65
Spatial concepts	p. 70
Some implications for Infants' School teachers	p. 72
The sub-period of concrete operations	p. 76
The laws of groupings	p. 81
Play in the period of concrete operations	p. 83
Some late misconceptions among English children	p. 83
Limitations in thinking during the period of concrete operations	p. 85
Spatial concepts	p. 88
Discussion	p. 92
The period of formal operations	p. 97
Assumptions, hypotheses and laws	p. 99
Definitions and symbolism	p. 102
Continuity and infinity	p. 103
Relations between relations	p. 105
Implications for Secondary School teachers	p. 113
Concluding remarks	p. 118
Bibliography	p. 123
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