The Construction of Reality in the ChildThis is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget's words the study of sensorimotor or practical intelligence in the first two years of development has taught us how the child, at first directly assimilating the external environment to his own activity, later, in order to extend this assimilation, forms an increasing number of schemata which are both more mobile and better able to inter-coordinate. This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject's own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 10 |
beginning of permanence extending the move | 13 |
active search for the vanished object | 44 |
the child takes account of the sequential dis | 66 |
the representation of invisible displace | 79 |
The constitutive processes of object concept | 86 |
CHAPTER 2 | 97 |
the coordination of practical groups and | 113 |
the elementary externalization and objectifi | 256 |
the real objectification and spatialization | 271 |
representative causality and the residues | 293 |
The origins of causality | 308 |
CHAPTER 4 | 320 |
the subjective series | 327 |
the beginnings of the objectification | 335 |
the objective series | 341 |
the transition from subjective to objective | 152 |
objective groups | 183 |
representative groups | 203 |
The main processes of the construction of space | 209 |
CHAPTER 3 | 219 |
magicophenomenalistic causality | 229 |
CONCLUSION | 350 |
The transition from sensorimotor intelligence to conceptual | 357 |
From sensorimotor universe to representation of the childs | 364 |
Conclusion | 380 |
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