The Psychology Of The Child

Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder

Basic Books, Aug 6, 2008 - Psychology - 192 pages

Piaget’s influence on psychology has been profound. His pathbreaking investigations and theories of cognitive development have set child psychology moving in entirely new directions. His bold speculations have provided the inspiration for the work of others. His studies have been the subject of many books and countless articles. And, significantly, his influence has spread to other disciplines and is having an ever-growing impact on the general culture at large.Here Jean Piaget, with the assistance of his long-time collaborator Bärbel Inhelder, offers a definitive presentation of the developmental psychology he has elaborated over the last forty years. This comprehensive synthesis traces each stage of the child’s cognitive development, over the entire period of childhood, from infancy to adolescence.

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Contents

• THE SENSORIMOTOR LEVEL: 4
• Sensorimotor Intelligence: 5
• 2 Stage 1: 7
• 3 Stage 2: 9
• 4 Stage 3: 10
• 5 Stages 4 and 5: 11
• 6 Stage 6: 12
• The Construction of Reality: 14
• 1 The Permanent Object: 15
• 2 Space and Time: 16
• 3 Causality: 18
• The Cognitive Aspect of Sensorimotor Reactions: 20
• The Affective Aspect of Sensorimotor Reactions: 22
• 1 The Initial Adualism: 23
• 2 Intermediary Reactions: 25
• 3 Object Relations: 26
• THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEPTION: 29
• Perceptual Constancies and Perceptual Causality: 30
• 1 Constancy of Form: 32
• 3 The Permanent Object and Perception: 33
• 4 Perceptual Causality: 34
• Field Effects: 36
• The Perceptual Activities: 40
• Perceptions Concepts and Operations: 44
• 1 Methods: 45
• 2 Projective Concepts and Perceptions: 46
• 3 Perceptual Constancies and Operatory Conservations: 47
• 4 Situation 4: 49
• 5 Conclusion: 50
• THE SEMIOTIC OR SYMBOLIC FUNCTION: 52
• The Semiotic Function and Imitation: 53
• 1 The Appearance of the Semiotic Function: 54
• 2 The Role of Imitation: 55
• 3 Symbols and Signs: 58
• Drawing: 64
• Mental Images: 69
• 1 The Problems Raised by the Image: 70
• 2 Two Types of Images: 71
• 3 Copy Images: 73
• 4 Kinetic and Transformational Images: 75
• 5 Images and Operations: 78
• Memory and the Structure of ImageMemories: 81
• Language: 85
• 1 Evolution: 86
• 2 Language and Thought: 87
• 3 Language and Logic: 88
• 4 Language and Operations: 90
• 5 Conclusion: 92
• THE CONCRETE OPERATIONS OF THOUGHT AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS: 93
• The Three Levels in the Transition from Action to Operation: 94
• The Genesis of the Concrete Operations: 97
• 1 Notions of Conservation: 98
• 2 The Concrete Operations: 101
• 3 Seriation: 102
• 4 Classification: 103
• 5 Number: 105
• 6 Space: 107
• 7 Time and Speed: 108
• Representation of the Universe Causality and Chance: 110
• Social and Affective Interactions: 115
• 2 The Problem: 117
• 3 Socialization: 118
• Moral Feelings and Judgments: 123
• 1 The Genesis of Duty: 124
• 2 Heteronomy: 125
• 3 Moral Realism: 126
• 4 Autonomy: 128
• Conclusion: 129
• THE PREADOLESCENT AND THE PROPOSITIONAL OPERATIONS: 131
• Formal Thought and the Combinatorial System: 133
• 2 Combinations of Objects: 134
• 3 Propositional Combinations: 135
• The Two Reversibilities: 137
• The Formal Operatory Schemes: 141
• 1 Proportions: 142
• 2 Double Systems of Reference: 144
• 4 Notions of Probability: 145
• The Induction of Laws and the Dissociation of Factors: 146
• 2 The Pendulum: 148
• The Affective Transformations: 150
• FACTORS IN MENTAL DEVELOPMENT: 153
• Bibliography: 161
• Index: 163

About the author

Jean Piaget, 1896-1980 Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, whose original training was in the natural sciences, spent much of his career studying the psychological development of children, largely at the Institut J.J. Rousseau at the University of Geneva, but also at home, with his own children as subjects. The impact of this research on child psychology has been enormous, and Piaget is the starting point for those seeking to learn how children view numbers, how they think of cause-and-effect relationships, or how they make moral judgments. Piaget found that cognitive development from infancy to adolescence invariably proceeds in four major stages from infancy to adolescence: sensory-motor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Each of these stages is marked by the development of cognitive structures, making possible the solution of problems that were impossible earlier and laying the foundation for the cognitive advances of the next stage. He showed that rational adult thinking is the culmination of an extensive process that begins with elementary sensory experiences and unfolds gradually until the individual is capable of dealing with imagined concepts, that is, abstract thought. By learning how children comprehend the world and how their intellectual processes mature, Piaget contributed much to the theory of knowledge as an active process in which the mind transforms reality. Put simply, Piaget described children from a perspective that no one had seen before.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Psychology Of The Child
• Authors: Jean Piaget, Barbel Inhelder
• Publisher: Basic Books, 2008
• ISBN: 0786725338, 9780786725335
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General