Cognitive Development (eBook)
238 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-6738-8 (ISBN)
In the context of these empirical arguments, the book considers such theoretical questions as the nature of intellectual skills and conceptual or symbolic knowledge, as well as the role of experience and instruction in their development. The study concludes with a description of the child's reconstruction of the diagonal in terms of what at least poses as a general model of perceptual and intellectual development, and accounts for, among other things, man's increasing ability to apprehend and theorize about the motion of the stars. It shows that it is the elaboration of the child's perceptual knowledge in the context of his performatory attempts in such cultural media as language and geometry that accounts for his ability to copy a diagonal in particular and his intellectual development in general.
Cognitive Development: The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality is an empirical and rational enquiry into the child's development of a conceptual system relating to the concept of the diagonal during the age range three to six years. A detailed examination will be made of why a young child has difficulty with such a problem, and what occurs during development that removes this difficulty. In the context of these empirical arguments, the book considers such theoretical questions as the nature of intellectual skills and conceptual or symbolic knowledge, as well as the role of experience and instruction in their development. The study concludes with a description of the child's reconstruction of the diagonal in terms of what at least poses as a general model of perceptual and intellectual development, and accounts for, among other things, man's increasing ability to apprehend and theorize about the motion of the stars. It shows that it is the elaboration of the child's perceptual knowledge in the context of his performatory attempts in such cultural media as language and geometry that accounts for his ability to copy a diagonal in particular and his intellectual development in general.
Front Cover 1
Cognitive Development: The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 8
Dedication 6
FOREWORD 12
PREFACE 14
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 20
CHAPTER 2. CONCEPTUALIZING CONCEPTUALIZING: THE DIAGONAL AS AN INTERESTING PROBLEM 28
PERCEPTUAL SPACE 28
REPRESENTATIONAL SPACE 30
CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL SPACE 34
VISUAL REPRESENTATION 36
CHAPTER 3. THE NATURE OF THE DIFFICULTY 43
PROBLEM DIFFICULTY COMPARISON 44
PROBLEM DIFFICULTY COMPARISONS 54
GENERAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 56
CHAPTER 4. THE EFFECTS OF INSTRUCTION 60
METHOD 63
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 65
CONCLUSION 72
CHAPTER 5. THE CHANGE IN THE MIND OF THE CHILD 75
PERCEPTION 75
PERFORMANCE 79
CONCEPTUALIZATION 80
CHAPTER 6. INSTRUCTION REVISITED: PERCEPTUAL, MOTOR AND LINGUISTIC FACTORS IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 95
PART I: PERCEPTUAL AND VERBAL TRAINING AND THE ACQUISITION OF DIAGONALITY 95
RESULTS 101
DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS 104
PART II. PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR AND VERBAL TRAINING IN THE ACQUISITION OF DIAGONALITY 106
Phase 1 109
METHOD 109
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 112
Phase II 116
METHOD 116
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 117
A MONTESSORI APPROACH TO THE ACQUISITION OF DIAGONALITY 124
CHAPTER 7. PERSONAL AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT: THE ACQUISITION OF THE DIAGONAL IN EAST AFRICA 128
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN 135
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 138
CONCLUSION 147
CHAPTER 8. LOOKING, SEEING AND KNOWING—EYE MOVEMENT STUDIES 151
METHOD 152
RESULTS 158
DISCUSSION 171
CONCLUSIONS 174
CHAPTER 9. THE EFFECTS OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOY ON INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT 177
EDUCATIONAL TOY 179
EDUCATIONAL TOY 181
CHAPTER 10. CONCLUSIONS: SOME ASPECTS OF A THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 191
PERCEPTION 191
LANGUAGE : PERCEPTUAL AND SEMANTIC STRUCTURE OF THE ORIENTATION OF LINE 196
PERCEIVING AND PERFORMING 200
INTELLIGENCE—SKILL IN A MEDIUM 212
INSTRUCTION 216
SUMMARY 220
REFERENCES 223
AUTHOR INDEX 230
SUBJECT INDEX 233
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.10.2013 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie | |
Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Endokrinologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4832-6738-5 / 1483267385 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4832-6738-8 / 9781483267388 |
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