Research Catalog

Title

The mind's staircase : exploring the conceptual underpinnings of children's thought and knowledge / Robbie Case in collaboration with Marta Bruchkowsky [and others].

Author

Case, Robbie.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1992.

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Description

xvi, 411 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The shortcomings of Piaget's theory of intellectual development are well-known. Less clear is what sort of theory should be devised to replace it. This volume describes the current "main contenders," including neo-Piagetian, neo-connectionist, neo-innatist and sociocultural models. Its contributors conclude that none of these models are adequate because each one implies a view of the human mind which is either too general, too particular, or too modular. A collaborative program of research -- seven years in the making -- is then described, which gives support to a newly emerging synthesis of these various positions.

Subject

• Human information processing in children
• Cognition in children
• Human information processing
• Children
• Infants
• Mental Processes
• Child
• Infant
• children (people by age group)
• infants
• Infants
• Human information processing
• Children
• Cognition in children
• Human information processing in children
• Cognitie
• Kinderen
• Ontwikkeling (psychologie)
• Enfants > Développement
• Traitement de l'information chez l'enfant
• Cognition chez l'enfant

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-399).

Contents

• General and specific views of the mind, its structure, and its development / Robbie Case -- A neo-Piagetian approach to the issue of cognitive generality and specificity / Robbie Case -- Advantages and limitations of the neo-Piagetian position / Robbie Case -- Synchrony and asynchrony in the development of children's scientific reasoning / Zopito Marini -- Synchrony and asynchrony in the acquisition of children's everyday mathematical knowledge / Sharon Griffin, Robbie Case, Robert Sandieson -- A neo-structural analysis of children's response to instruction in the sight-reading of musical notation / Alessandra M. Capodilupo -- Testing for the presence of a central quantative structure : use of the transfer paradigm / Robbie Case, Robert Sandieson -- Young girls' conception of their mothers' role : a neo-structural analysis / Jill Goldberg-Reitman -- The development of empathic cognition in middle and early childhood / Marta Bruchkowsky -- A neo-structural analysis of children's narrative and its development / Anne McKeough.
• Young children's awareness of their inner world : a neo-structural analysis of the development of intrapersonal intelligence / Sharon Griffin -- Testing for the presence of a central social structure : use of the transfer paradigm / Anne McKeough -- Stage and structure in the development of children's spatial representations / Sonja Dennis -- Horizontal and vertical structure : stages and substages in children's motor development / Denise T. Reid -- Parallels in the development of children's social, numerical, and spatial thought / Robbie Case [and others] -- Analyzing the basic cognitive-developmental processes of children with specific types of learning disablilty / Joanna Crammond -- Stage and structure in the development of children with various types of "giftedness" / Marion Porath -- Cross-cultural variation in the structure of children's thought / Thomas A. Fiati -- The mind and its modules : toward a multi-level view of the development of human intelligence / Robbie Case.

ISBN

• 0805803246
• 9780805803242
• 0805811907
• 9780805811902

LCCN

91024819

OCLC

• ocm24067021
• 24067021
• SCSB-1935915

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library