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The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children book cover

1st Edition

The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children

By John A. Zivnuska, Barbel Inhelder Copyright 2014
270 Pages
by Psychology Press

270 Pages
by Psychology Press

270 Pages
by Psychology Press
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Although originally published in France in 1951 this English translation was not published until 1975. The book supplements the authors’ previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to assimilate those aspects of experience that cannot be assimilated deductively – for example, the... Read more

Translators’ Preface.  Foreword.  Introduction: The Intuition of Probabilities.  Part 1: Chance in Physical Reality.  1. Notions of Random Mixture and Irreversibility  2. Centered Distributions (Normal Curves) and Uniform Distributions  3. The Discovery of a Constant Relationship in Conflict with a Fortuitous Uniform Distribution  Part 2: Random Drawings  4. Chance and "Miracle" in the Game of Heads and Tails  5. The Random Drawing of Pairs  6. The Quantification of Probabilities  Part 3: Combinatoric Operations  7. The Development of Operations of Combination  8. Operations of Permutation  9. Operations of Arrangement  10. Conclusion: Chance, Probability, and Operations.  Glossary.

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Authored by Piaget, Jean; Inhelder, Barbel

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