Origins of intellect Piaget's theory
The origins of intellect
- San Francisco, California W. H. Freeman & Co. 1975
- 205 p
Contents: 1. Introduction : Piaget and his methods ; Relation to American psychology ; Evolutionary perspective ; Structure and function ; Relations among concepts ; Equilibration ; Factors in development ; Developmental units 2. Sensorimotor period (0-2 years) : The six stages ; Imitation and play, a summary Preoperational period (2-7 years) : Advances ; Limitations 4. Concrete operations period (7-11) : Properties of groups and groupings ; Some representative problems 5. Formal operations period (11-15 years) : Archimedes' law of floating bodies ; Concrete operations applied to the floating bodies problem ; Operations on operations ; The real versus the possible ; Egocentrism : "Formal" as pertaining to form 6. Educational implications: an epilogue : Teaching: principles ; Teaching: examples ; Testing ; Further comments and residual questions