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The Visual World of the Child (Paperback)
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The Visual World of the Child (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Perception
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'How do children see the world?' is a question of immense
importance which fascinates not only psychologists but also parents
and all those concerned with education. In this English
translation, first published in 1976, the author, who was Professor
of Psychology at the Rene Descartes University in Paris, provided
the most comprehensive review at the time of the development of
visual perception in children, a field to which she herself had
made a substantial contribution. Her book, which gave the first
comprehensive study of the relationship between cognitive
development and perceptual activities in small children, explores
how they interpret visual information and gradually build up a
picture of the world. The author had devoted fifteen years to
research on the visual world of the child and possessed an
exhaustive knowledge of the experimental literature on the subject
in English, French, Russian and other languages. She saw perception
as a form of knowledge which the child exploits and adapts in a
variety of ways at different stages of development. This is
brilliantly demonstrated in her own research on the strategies
children use in judging things as 'different' or 'the same' and the
way these relate to the structure of their perceptual organisation.
This book is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest
in developmental and cognitive psychology; it also provides an
object lesson in the application of experimental methods. In
addition the organisation of the material made it a valuable
textbook for advanced undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and
will still be of interest in its historical context today.
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