Language and Operational Thought

This is the second volume in a series that records the official Symposium Pro­ ceedings of the Jean Piaget Society. Like the first volume, this work includes theoretical, empirical, and applied aspects of Jean Piaget' s seminal epistemology. The focus of this publication is the intricate interp...

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Other Authors: Presseisen, Barbara (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1978, 1978
Edition:1st ed. 1978
Series:Topics in Cognitive Development
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I: Language Development
  • 1. Thought and Language
  • 2. The Relevance of Piaget’s Early Work for a Semantic Approach to Language Acquisition
  • 3. What the Child Brings to Language
  • 4. Some New Prospects for Neuropsychological Research on Disorders of Perception and Language
  • II: Formal Reasoning
  • 5. Formal Reasoning: A Reappraisal
  • 6. The Future of Formal Thought Research: The Study of Analogy and Metaphor
  • 7. Symbol Manipulation Reexamined: An Approach to Bridging a Chasm
  • III: Social Cognition
  • 8. Interface between the Behavioral and Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Research in Morality
  • 9. From Adolescence to Adulthood: The Rediscovery of Reality in a Postconventional World
  • 10. Adolescence, Egocentrism, and Epistemological Loneliness
  • IV: Applied Research
  • 11. The Function of Reading in the Transition to Concrete and Formal Operations
  • 12. Opportunities for Concrete and Formal Thinking on Science Tasks