Product Description: This book was first published in 1979.

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This book was first published in 1970.

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. The strength of Piaget's research is evident in this collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work. Piaget's data are remarkably rich. In his new introduction, Jaan Valsiner observes that Piaget had no grand theoretical aims, yet the book's simple power cannot be ignored. Piaget's great contribution to developmental psychology was his "clinical method"-a tactic that integrated relevant aspects of naturalistic experiment, interview, and observation. Through this systematic inquiry, we gain insight into children's thinking. Reading Piaget will encourage the contemporary reader to think about the unity of psychological phenomena and their theoretical underpinnings. His wealth of creative experimental ideas probes into the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. Technologies change, yet the creative curiosity of children remains basically unhindered by the consumer society. Piaget's data preserve the reality of the original phenomena. As such, this work will provide a wealth of information for developmental psychologists and those involved in the field of experimental science. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is known for investigations of thought processes. He was professor at Geneva University (1929-1954) and director of the International Center for Epistemology (1955-1980). He is the author of The Language and Thought of the Child, Judgment and Reasoning in the Child, The Origin of Intelligence in Children, and The Early Growth of Logic in the Child. Jaan Valsiner is professor of psychology at Clark University, and a recognized authority on the life and work of Piaget.

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A study of the conception that children form during different stages of life.

Product Description: This book was first published in 1969.

Product Description: First published in 1974. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Studies the development of sensorimotor intelligence in the child between birth and two years

Product Description: Jean Piaget, el célebre psicólogo suizo, nos brinda una nueva muestra de su talento y creatividad. Como a Freud, se le considera uno de los gigantes del pensamiento del siglo XX: a Freud por haber transformado la concepción de la personalidad; a Piaget por haber transformado la concepción de la inteligencia...read more

Product Description: Piaget escribió este libro a sugerencia de Albert Einstein para elucidar los fenómenos del tiempo (sentido y raíz de la teoría de la relatividad) en los complejos laberintos de la subjetividad infantil. Esta anécdota dio como resultado una de las obras más completa sobre el tema...read more

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: Here, truly, is the essential Piaget_a distillation of the eminent Genevan's extraordinary legacy to modern psychological knowledge. This generous selection of the most important of Piaget's writings, spanning a period of some seventy years, organizes the core of his remarkable contribution in a way that clarifies and illuminates his aims, ideas, and underlying themes...read more

Product Description: ESTUDIOS SOBRE LOGICA Y PSICOLOGIA

Product Description: First published in English 1968, in this volume Paul Fraisse begins with history, looking at the evolution of experimental psychology, starting with its origins. He then moves on to the establishment of experimental psychology around the world...read more

Genetic Epistemology attempts to explain knowledge, an d in particular scientific knowledge, on the basis of its history, its sociogenesis, and especially the psychological origins of the notions and operations upon which it is based.