The Child's Conception of the WorldA milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or subjective world and what limits does he or she draw between the self and objective reality? These questions make up the first problem, the child's notion of reality. A second fundamental problem is the significance of explanations put forward by the child. What use does he or she make of the notions of cause and law? Is the form of explanation presented by the child a new type? These and like questions form the second problem, the child's notion of causality. Jacques Voneche, Director of the Piaget Archives in Geneva, Switzerland, provides a preface to this classic in which he reveals the provanance of The Child's Conception of the World within the context of Piaget's other work and the then-burgeoning field of developmental psychology. |
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... head , p . 49. - § 4 . Words and things , p . 55 . CHAPTER II . - NOMINAL REALISM § 1. The origin of names , p . 63. - § 2. The place of names , p . 71. § 3. The intrinsic value of names , p . 80 . -§ 4. Conclusions , p . 85 . CHAPTER ...
... head , p . 49. - § 4 . Words and things , p . 55 . CHAPTER II . - NOMINAL REALISM § 1. The origin of names , p . 63. - § 2. The place of names , p . 71. § 3. The intrinsic value of names , p . 80 . -§ 4. Conclusions , p . 85 . CHAPTER ...
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... head and his journal Report of the Royal Society's Committee on Evolution and the biometrist Karl Pearson as the chief of the anti - Mendelists and his journal Question of the Day and of the Fray , Piaget was clearly on Pearson's side ...
... head and his journal Report of the Royal Society's Committee on Evolution and the biometrist Karl Pearson as the chief of the anti - Mendelists and his journal Question of the Day and of the Fray , Piaget was clearly on Pearson's side ...
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... head , " but there is still " a little voice in the head , " " with a xxviii PREFACE little mouth , " " thinking is talking.
... head , " but there is still " a little voice in the head , " " with a xxviii PREFACE little mouth , " " thinking is talking.
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... head " because if it were so , I could not see my dreams . I am in my dream . But my dream is there " ( in front of me , that is ) . The second stage covers the age range 7 to 9-10 . Children under the influence of adults claim that ...
... head " because if it were so , I could not see my dreams . I am in my dream . But my dream is there " ( in front of me , that is ) . The second stage covers the age range 7 to 9-10 . Children under the influence of adults claim that ...
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... Head and so discov- ered the World , foreword by Jean Piaget ( New York : Double- day , 1971 ) Excerpt from Piaget's The Construction of Reality in the Child from the Essential Piaget pp . 276-77 INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS AND METHODS The ...
... Head and so discov- ered the World , foreword by Jean Piaget ( New York : Double- day , 1971 ) Excerpt from Piaget's The Construction of Reality in the Child from the Essential Piaget pp . 276-77 INTRODUCTION PROBLEMS AND METHODS The ...
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Page 32 - ... is the effort to exclude the intrusive self. Realism, on the contrary, consists in ignoring the existence of self and thence regarding one's own perspective as immediately objective and absolute. Realism is thus anthropocentric illusion, finality — in short, all those illusions which teem in the history of science. So long as thought has not become conscious of self, it is a prey to perpetual confusions between objective and subjective...
Page xxxii - ... as it is internal activity, and it is impossible to decide once for all whether the progress of the experiment is due to that of reason or the inverse. From this point of view the morphologic-reflex organization, that is, the physiological and anatomic aspect of the organism, gradually appears to the mind as external to it, and the intellectual activity which extends it by internalizing it presents itself as the essential of our existence as living beings. In the last analysis, it is this process...
Page 7 - And above all, it is so hard to find the middle course between systematization due to preconceived ideas and incoherence due to the absence of any directing hypothesis! The good experimenter must, in fact, unite two often incompatible qualities; he must know how to observe, that is to say, to let the child talk freely, without ever checking or side-tracking his utterance, and at the same time he must constantly be alert for something definitive; at every moment he must have some working hypothesis,...