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Children's Understanding - The Development of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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Children's Understanding - The Development of Mental Models (Hardcover)
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This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven,
and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are
analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way
information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive
tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications
of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive
development. The first half of the book contains analyses of human
reasoning processes (drawing on PDP models of analogy), development
of strategies, and task complexity -- all based on aspects of PDP
representations. It is proposed that PDP representations become
more differentiated with age, so more vectors can be processed in
parallel, with the result that structures of greater complexity can
be processed. This model gives an account of previously unexplained
difficulties in children's reasoning, including some which were
influential in stage theories. The second half of the book examines
processes entailed in some representative cognitive developmental
tasks, including transitive inference, deductive inference
(categorical syllogisms), hypothesis testing, learning set
acquisition, acquisition and transfer of relational structures,
humor, hierarchical classification and inclusion, understanding of
quantity, arithmetic word problems, algebra, conservation,
mechanics, and the concept of mind. Process accounts of tasks are
emphasized, based on applications of recent developments in
cognitive science.
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