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The child's conception of the world
Author
Uniform Title
Représentation du monde chez l'enfant. English
Title
The child's conception of the world / by Jean Piaget ; translated by Joan and Andrew Tomlinson.
ISBN
1315006219 (electronic bk.)
9781315006215 (electronic bk.)
0742559513
0765705214
9780742559516
9780765705211
Published
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxxv, 397 pages.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. With new pref.
Translated from the French.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Nineteenth-century developmental psychologist Jean Piaget examines the child's notions of reality and causality at various stages of development.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Prerface / Jacques Voneche
Introduction
Problems and methods
Part One. Realism. 1. The notion of thought
2. Nominal relaism
3. Dreams
4. Realism and the origin of the idea of participation
Part Two. Animism. 5. Consciousness atributed to things
6. The concept of 'life'
7. The origins of child animism, moral necessity and physical determinism
Part Three. Artificialism. 8. The origin of the sun and moon
9. Metereology and the origin of water
10. The origin of trees, mountains and of the Earth
11. The meaning and origins of child artificialism
Appendix. Note on the relations between belief in efficacy and magic, in connection with [sections] 2 and 3 of chapter 4.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Child Development
Mental Processes
Causality
Child
Reality Testing
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