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The CHILD'S CONCEPTION OF Physical CAUSALITY (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The CHILD'S CONCEPTION OF Physical CAUSALITY (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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