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Index
Foreword to the 2000 Edition
Preface
Introduction
I THE SENSORI-MOTOR LEVEL 3
1. Sensori-niotor Intelligence
II. The Construction of Reality
III. The Cognitive Aspect of Sensori-motor Reactions
IV. The Affective Aspect of Sensori-motor Reactions 21
2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERCEPTION
1. Perceptual Constancies and Perceptual Causality
II. Field Effects
III. The Perceptual Activities
IV. Perceptions, Concepts, and Operations
3 THE SEMIOTIC OR SYMBOLIC FUNCTION
1. The Semiotic Function and Imitation
II. Symbolic Play
III. Drawing
IV. Mental Images
V. Memory and the Structure of Image-Memories
VI. Language
4 THE "CONCRETE" OPERATIONS OF THOUGHT AND INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
1. The Three Levels in the Transition from Action to Operation
II. The Genesis of the "Concrete" Operations
III. Representation of the Universe: Causality and Chance
IV. Social and Affective Interactions
V. Moral Feelings and Judgments
VI. Conclusion
5 THE PREADOLESCENT AND THE PROPOSITIONAL OPERATIONS
1. Formal Thought and the Combinatorial System
II. The Two Reversibilities
III. The Formal Operatory Schemes
IV. The Induction of Laws and the Dissociation of Factors
V. The Affective Transformations
Conclusion: FACTORS IN MENTAL DEVELOPMENT
Bibliography
Index
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Whatever criteria for intelligence one adopts-purposeful groping (E. Claparede), sudden comprehensio
For many psyclpologists this mechanism is one of association, a cumulative process by which conditio
As far as the reflexes of the newborn child are concerned, those among them that are of particular i
II. The Construction of Reality'
ences successful in mastering certain combinations (picking up a cushion and finding nothing under i
tactilo-kinesthetic, through sucking objects, for instance), but these coordinations remain partial
Along with the behavior patterns of localization of and search for the permanent object, the displac
The most frequently studied symptom of satisfaction is the smile. Charlotte Buhler believed the smil
But Spitz1'
structuration of behavior. "My data," concludes Escalona, "suggest the possibility that what Piaget
This hypothesis, which is very plausible but not selfevident, has been verified by Gouin-Decarie.12
As mentioned in Section II (pa(ye 15), Gouin-Decarie examined the regular evolution of the stages
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