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This is Volume XXII of thirty-two on a series of Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1958, this text offers a translation from French of an essay on the construction of formal operational structures to explain part of the growth of logic in a child's brain and development. It looks at propositional logic, the integration of formal thought and the operational schemata of formal logic.

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Author:   Jean & Inhelder Piaget ,  Jean Piaget
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9780415210027

ISBN 10:   041521002
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   24 June 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Translators' Introduction: A Guide for Psychologists, PART I The Development of Propositional Logic 1. The Equality of Angles of Incidence and Reflection the Operations of Reciprocal Implication 2. The Law of Floating Bodies and the Elimination of Contradictions 3· Flexibility and the Operations Mediating the Separation of Variables 4· The Oscillation of a Pendulum and the Operations of Exclusion 5· Falling Bodies on an Inclined Plane and Operations of Disjunction 6. The Role of Invisible Magnetization and the Sixteen Binary Propositional Operations 93 PART II The Operational Schemata of Formal Logic 7· Combinations of Colored and Colorless Chemical Bodies 8. The Conservation of Motion in a Horizontal Plane 9. Communicating Vessels 10. Equilibrium in the Hydraulic Press 11. Equilibrium in the Balance 12. Hauling Weight on an Inclined Plane 13· The Projection of Shadows 14· Centrifugal Force and Compensations 15· Probable Dispersions and Correlations PART III The Structural Integration of Formal Thought 16. Formal Thought from the Equilibrium Standpoint 17. Concrete and Formal Structures 18. Adolescent Thinking

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Jean Piaget, Edited by Barbel Inhelder

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