1st Edition

Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 1 Organization of Length and Class Concepts: Empirical Consequences of a Piagetian Formalism

By Daniel N. Osherson Copyright 1974
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1974, a wide and interesting set of intellectual abilities in children are examined here. Volume 1 of 4 (Organization of Length and Class Concepts: Empirical Consequences of a Piagetian Formalism) converts an axiomatization of classes and asymmetrical relationships (proper to Piaget’s discipline of Genetic Epistemology) into a model of the development of these notions in... Read more

Preface.  1. Introduction  2. Grize’s Axiomatization of the Grouping  3. The Length Experiment  4. The Class-Inclusion Experiment  5. The Coordination Rules  6. Theoretical Use of the Axiomatization: General Considerations  7. The Model for Length Tasks  8. Extension of the Model for Length  9. An Attempt to Predict the Performance-Factors  10. The Model for Class-Inclusion  11. The Relation of the Theory to Genevan Psychology  12. Direction of Further Theoretical Efforts.  References.  Appendixes.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Daniel N. Osherson