Beyond modularity : a developmental perspective on cognitive science /

Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cogni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Karmiloff-Smith, Annette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996, ©1992.
Edición:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Colección:Learning, development, and conceptual change.
Temas:
Cognition in children.
Modularity (Psychology) in children.
Constructivism (Psychology)
Nativism (Psychology)
Child development.
Child psychology.
Cognition.
Infants.
Children.
Child Development
Psychology, Child
Cognition
Child Behavior
Infant
Child
Cognition chez l'enfant.
Modularité chez l'enfant.
Constructivisme (Psychologie)
Nativisme (Psychologie)
Enfants > Développement.
Enfants > Psychologie.
Nourrissons.
Enfants.
cognition.
infants.
children (people by age group)
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Child.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychotherapy > Child & Adolescent.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Child Development.
Infants
Children
Child psychology
Child development
Cognition in children
Modularity (Psychology) in children
Kognitive Psychologie
Kognitive Entwicklung
Entwicklungspsychologie
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
Electronic books.
Online resources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition. Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of development to what a developmental perspective can offer cognitive science. In Beyond Modularity she treats cognitive development as a serious theoretical tool, presenting a coherent portrait of the flexibility and creativity of the human mind as it develops from infancy to middle childhood. Language, physics, mathematics, commonsense psychology, drawing, and writing are explored in terms of the relationship between the innate capacities of the human mind and subsequent representational change which allows for such flexibility and creativity. Karmiloff-Smith also takes up the issue of the extent to which development involves domain-specific versus domain-general processes. She concludes with discussions of nativism and domain specificity in relation to Piagetian theory and connectionism, and shows how a developmental perspective can pinpoint what is missing from connectionist models of the mind.
Notas:"A Bradford book."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index.
ISBN:0585020442
9780585020440
9780262276740
0262276747

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