| Description |
xiv, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
A Cross-cultural Investigation in Aden, South Arabia : Background to the investigation -- Concept of the Conservation of substance, weight, and volume : Deformed ball -- Order of acquiring concepts of substance, weight and volume -- Water tests and Parallel glass test : Water tests : conservation of continuous quantities -- Parallel glass test : coordination of inverse relations -- Block Test : Transitivity of equal weight -- Sugar test : conservation |
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Bath and doll tests : numerical equivalence -- Bath, towel and doll test : multiplication and the coordination of relations of equivalence -- House and door test : seriation, qualitative similarity and ordinal correspondence -- Staircase tests : ordination and cardination : Stick test ; Card test -- Bead test : relationship between class and number -- Shell tests : additive coposition of number -- Non-verbal intelligence tests : Progressive matrices -- Proteus maze test -- Cube imitation test -- Koh's blocks test -- Results of Aden tests -- Cross-cultural studies -- Concept training |
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Conceptual Development : Piaget in context -- Piaget's theories in relation to other theories in development : Methods of studying children -- Theory construction -- The Behaviourist approach to child development -- The Gestalt approach to child development -- Psychoanalytic theories of child development -- Genetic theories of development |
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Piaget's work considered in relation to other studies of concept formation : Early work on concept formation -- Perception and concept formation -- Language and conceptual thought -- Personality and concept formation -- The Child's concept of number : Some approaches to the child's conception of number -- Piaget's theories of the development of the concept of number |
| Analysis |
Cognition in children |
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Piaget, Jean |
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Piaget, Jean 1896-1980 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 222-231 |
| Subject |
Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980.
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Cognition in children.
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Psychological tests.
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| LC no. |
73851458 |
| ISBN |
0039100731 |
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