Piaget Evolution And Development

Author : Jonas Langer,Melanie Killen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135690984

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Piaget, Evolution, and Development by Jonas Langer,Melanie Killen Pdf

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is in progress relating to the study of these mental developments. This volume seeks to illuminate this rebirth. The varied findings and approaches reported reveal that contemporary comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and fused, this comparative study is a flowering field of diverse disciplinary approaches, empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny, and history of mentation-most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, organization of thought, symbol, and value development. The world's leading authorities on the subject discuss the implications of the study of evolution for our models of the ontogenetic origins, development, and history of mentation, as well as determine the constraints that evolution imposes on mental development. Bringing the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, this book will be of interest cognitive developmentalists, primatologists and comparitive psychologists.

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015002398926

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Behavior and Evolution by Jean Piaget Pdf

What is the relationship between behavior and the processes which shape evolution? Why has behavior, whether it amounts to no more than a flower's reaction to light or encompasses the complexities of human thought, been so neglected by traditional evolutionary theory? Beginning with these questions, Jean Piaget offers a dazzling, at time demanding, inquiry into the state of our understanding of evolution. This is a task that takes Piaget from an investigation of the early giants Darwin and Lamarck, to the contributions of Weiss and Baldwin, to the role of cybernetics. Along the way he outlines the relation between instinct and evolution, habits and acquired characteristics. He criticizes those who reduce the question to a genetic determinism. And he challenges those who see no qualitative difference between the evolution of anatomical structures and the evolution of behavioral structures. What Piaget develops in this concise and remarkable work is a subtle, sophisticated theory of behavior in both the plant and the animal worlds. Drawing on his life's work, he argues that all organisms are active and creative, and that the forms of organization they create in their environment go to the heart of the meaning of behavior and the processes of evolution. A prolific writer on philosophy and biology, as well as the father of the development psychology he calls genetic epistemology, Jean Piaget has had as his main area of concern the genesis of abstract concepts (classes, relations, numbers) and physical concepts (space, speed, chance, time) in the developing child. His theories have been widely applied to education.

Author : Michael Chapman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521367123

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Constructive Evolution by Michael Chapman Pdf

This book represents an attempt to understand the evolution of Jean Piaget's basic ideas in the context of his own intellectual development. Piaget sought to elucidate human knowledge by studying its origins and development. In this book, Michael Chapman applies the same method to Piaget's own thinking. Dr Chapman shows that some of the Swiss psychologist's essential ideas originated in adolescent philosophical speculations about the relation between science and value. These same ideas were then developed step by step in Piaget's investigations of children's cognitive development. Dr Chapman claims that Piaget's use of developmental psychology as a means for addressing questions about the evolution of knowledge has been misunderstood by psychologists approaching his work exclusively from the perspectives of their own discipline. Reconstructing Piaget's intellectual biography makes possible a better understanding of the questions he originally posed and the answers he subsequently provided. Dr Chapman concludes with an assessment of Piaget's relevance for contemporary psychology and philosophy and suggests ways in which Piagetian theory might be further developed.

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135658120

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Behaviour and Evolution by Jean Piaget Pdf

This book was first published in 1979.

Author : Jean Piaget,Donald Nicholson-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : 0710000529

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Behaviour and Evolution by Jean Piaget,Donald Nicholson-Smith Pdf

Author : Jonas Langer,Melanie Killen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135690991

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Piaget, Evolution, and Development by Jonas Langer,Melanie Killen Pdf

This volume brings the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, with chapters from leading researchers in both areas. For cognitive developmentalists and primatologists and comparative psychologists.

Author : John Gerard Messerly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0847682439

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Piaget's Conception of Evolution by John Gerard Messerly Pdf

The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.

Author : Sue Taylor Parker,Jonas Langer,Constance Milbrath
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135622459

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Biology and Knowledge Revisited by Sue Taylor Parker,Jonas Langer,Constance Milbrath Pdf

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates. Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning the relationship between evolution and development, and bring powerful new conceptual systems and research data to bear on understanding the problem of experience-contingent brain development and evolution. They focus on processes of phenotype construction - which fill the gap between genes and behavior - and demonstrate that evolutionary psychological models of innate mental modules are incompatible with what is known about these processes. This book presents exciting new approaches to the development and evolution of cognitive and linguistic abilities. Returning to the broad evolutionary theme of a previous meeting, the symposium focused on specifically constructivist approaches to neurogenesis and language acquisition, and their evolution. It was organized around ideas about the relationship between development and evolution raised in Piaget's books. Research in this arena has yielded cutting-edge insight into behavioral influences on brain plasticity. Two of its subthemes run throughout - a critique of modularity models popular among evolutionary psychologies and the prescient yet flawed nature of Piaget's critique of the modern synthesis of evolution. As a result, Biology and Knowledge Revisited is intended for developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, biological anthropologists, evolutionary psychologists, and philosophers of science.

Author : Jean Piaget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0226667782

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Adaptation and Intelligence by Jean Piaget Pdf

Author : Jean Piaget,Rolando García
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0231059922

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Psychogenesis and the History of Science by Jean Piaget,Rolando García Pdf

Translated from the French edition, 1983. An attempt to find the most fundamental laws of cognitive development operative in all forms of acquiring knowledge, from the first mental constructions to the most advanced levels of modern scientific endeavor. No bibliography. Annotation copyright Book New"

Author : Ellin Kofsky Scholnick,Katherine Nelson,Susan A. Gelman,Patricia H. Miller
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135686925

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Conceptual Development by Ellin Kofsky Scholnick,Katherine Nelson,Susan A. Gelman,Patricia H. Miller Pdf

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 constructivist approaches. The research areas span imitation, mathematical reasoning, biological knowledge, language development, and theory of mind. Written by major contributors to the field, this work will be of interest to students and researchers wanting a brief but in-depth overview of the contemporary field of cognitive development.

Author : Jean-Claude Bringuier,Jean Piaget
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226075051

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Conversations with Jean Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier,Jean Piaget Pdf

"What is most impressive about this book is its intelligence, its sophistication, and its charm. . . . This book presents Piaget's work and his person better than anything else that I know about."—David Elkind, Tufts University "The tone is one of constant movement from the most ordinary to the most abstruse. There are 14 conversations with 'le Patron,' some in 1969, some in 1975, and several more with co-workers in various fields. . . . In Mr. Bringuier's book, in a pleasant informal way, we see a sophisticated non-scientist exploring Piaget's domain with the master. Some of Piaget's best-known findings about children as explained along the way, but Mr. Bringuier has ways of bringing out the relation of this psychological work to the whole of Piaget's enterprise, and we get a good sense of the man and his work."—Howard E. Gruber, New York Times Book Review

Author : C. Zwingmann,B. Inhelder,H.H. Chipman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783642463235

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Piaget and His School by C. Zwingmann,B. Inhelder,H.H. Chipman Pdf

Inhelder in her introduction. The reason for this unity is that explanatory adequacy can be attained only by exploring the formative and constructive aspects of development. To explain a psychologic reaction or a cognitive mechanism (at all levels, including that of scientific thought) is not simply to describe them, but to comprehend the processes by which they were formed; failing that, one can but note results without grasping their meaning. JEAN PlACET VI Man distinguishes himself from other creatures primarily by his abstract reasoning capacity and his ability to communicate his knowledge by highly complex symbolic processes. What is called "humanity" and progress is to a large degree a measure of his consciousness and the deployment of his creative potentials. There are few scientists who have explored the universe of cogni tion, and contributed to the understanding of the realm of knowledge, with greater genius, care, and scientific intuition than Jean Piaget and his longtime collaborator Barbel Inhelder. Professor Inhelder and her assistant Dr. Harold Chipman realized this book in spite of the heavy load of research, teaching, and administra tive duties in a rapidly expanding Institute. It is therefore a particular pleasure for me to presen t this book.

Author : Ulrich Müller,Jeremy I. M. Carpendale,Leslie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139828512

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The Cambridge Companion to Piaget by Ulrich Müller,Jeremy I. M. Carpendale,Leslie Smith Pdf

Jean Piaget (1896–1980) was listed among the 100 most important persons in the twentieth century by Time magazine, and his work - with its distinctive account of human development - has had a tremendous influence on a range of disciplines from philosophy to education, and notably in developmental psychology. The Cambridge Companion to Piaget provides a comprehensive introduction to different aspects of Piaget's work in a manner that does not eschew engagement with the complexities of subjects or debates yet is accessible to upper-level undergraduate students. Each chapter is a specially commissioned essay written by an expert on the subject matter. Thus, the book will also be of interest to academic psychologists, educational psychologists, and philosophers.

Author : Gerald Young
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441994226

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Development and Causality by Gerald Young Pdf

This book sets forth a new model of development from a causal perspective. As this is an area vital to several disciplines. It has been written at multiple levels and for multiple audiences. It is based on the work of Piaget and Neo-Piagetians, but also covers other major models in development. It has elements that make it attractive as a teaching text, but it is especially research-focused. It has clinical applications. It presents many new ideas and models consistent with the existing literature, which is reviewed extensively. Students, researchers, and practitioners should find it useful. The models presented in the present work build on models introduced in prior publications (e.g., Young, 1990a, 1990b; 1997).