"My experience is what I agree to attend to," wrote William James
(1890) nearly a century ago in his Principles of Psychology.
Although certainly not the first to recognize the importance of
attention in man's experience--poets and philosophers throughout
history have touched upon the concept in one way or another-James
deserves credit for having accorded attention a central role in the
systematic study of the mind. With the advancement of psychology
since that time, except during the behaviorist digression, the
concept of attention has been an integral part of many prominent
theories dealing with learning, thinking, and other aspects of
cognitive functioning. Indeed, attention is an important
determinant of experience from birth throughout development. This
has been an implicit assumption underlying our view of cognition
since the writings of Charles Darwin (1897) and Wilhelm Preyer
(1888) as well as James, all of whom offered provocative insights
about the developing child's commerce with the environment. Al
though systematic research on attention in children was slow to
pick up during the early part of this century, interest in the
developmental study of attention has expanded enormously in recent
years."
General
| Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2011 |
| First published: |
1979 |
| Editors: |
G Hale
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
366 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4613-2987-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
Cognition & cognitive psychology >
General
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4613-2987-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781461329879 |
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