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This book examines a key issue in current cognitive theories - the nature of representation. Each chapter is characterized by attempts to frame hot topics in cognitive development within the landscape of current developmental theorizing and the past legacy of genetic epistemology. The chapters address four questions that are fundamental to any developmental line of inquiry: How should we represent the workings and contents of the mind? How does the child construct mental models during the course of development? What are the origins of these models? and What accounts for the novelties that are the products and producers of developmental change? These questions are situated in a historical context, Piagetian theory, and contemporary researchers attempt to trace how they draw upon, depart from, and transform the Piagetian legacy to revisit classic issues such as the child's awareness of the workings of mental life, the child's ability to represent the world, and the child's growing ability to process and learn from experience. The theoretical perspectives covered include constructivism, connectionism, theory-theory, information processing, dynamical systems, and social construc

Who reads Conceptual Development: Piaget's Legacy (Jean Piaget Symposium Series)?

Author

Ellin Kofsky Scholnick, Katherine Nelson, Susan A. Gelman, Patricia H. Miller

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138012448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Medical