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The Development of Thinking and Reasoning /
"Thinking and reasoning are key activities for human beings. In this book a distinguished set of contributors provides a wide readership with up-to-date scientific advances in the developmental psychology of thinking and reasoning, both at the theoretical and empirical levels. The first part of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Hove :
Psychology Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- from Piaget to dual-process theories: the complexities of thinking and reasoning development
- 2. Epistemic cognition and development
- 3. The development of the rational imagination: how children create counterfactual alternatives to reality
- 4. The development of reasoning by analogy
- 5. The development of abstract conditional reasoning
- 6. Dual processes and mental models in the development of conditional reasoning
- 7. Heuristics and biases: insights from developmental studies
- 8. Culture and developments in heuristics and biases from preschool through adolescence: challenges and implications for social development
- 9. Intuition, reasoning and development: a fuzzy-trace theory approach
- 10. Dual processes in the development of reasoning: the memory side of the theory
- 1. Introduction
- from Piaget to dual-process theories: the complexities of thinking and reasoning development / Caroline Gauffroy
- Thinking and reasoning beyond Piaget's conceptions
- Dual-process approaches
- pt. I Thinking and reasoning: beyond Piaget's conceptions
- 2. Epistemic cognition and development / David Moshman
- The literatures of epistemic cognition
- Concepts
- Propositions
- Relations to other work
- Suggestions for research
- Conclusion
- 3. The development of the rational imagination: how children create counterfactual alternatives to reality / Ruth M.J. Byrne
- Introduction
- Counterfactual thoughts
- Thinking about reality and its alternatives
- The counterfactual perspective
- Thinking about what is not there
- Pictures and possibilities
- Mental images and possibilities
- Counterfactual creation skills
- 4. The development of reasoning by analogy / Usha Goswami
- Early research on the development of analogical reasoning
- The role of relational knowledge in solving item analogies
- Relational knowledge and the `relational similarity constraint'
- Problem-solving paradigms for studying analogy
- The role of explicit goal structure
- The role of functional fixedness
- Analogies as tools for educational innovation
- Analogies in foundational domains
- Inhibition and the efficiency of retrieval as constraints on analogical reasoning
- Analogical reasoning in infancy?
- Analogies in reading and mathematics
- Conclusion
- 5. The development of abstract conditional reasoning / Henry Markovits
- How do different theories account for abstract reasoning?
- Development of concrete and abstract conditional reasoning: empirical data
- A representational redescriptive model of abstract reasoning
- pt. II Dual-processes approaches
- 6. Dual processes and mental models in the development of conditional reasoning / Caroline Gauffroy
- The mental model theory of conditionals
- A mental model theory for the development of conditional reasoning
- Evaluating the truth-value of conditionals
- Pragmatic and semantic modulations
- Evaluating the probability of conditionals
- Dual-process accounts of conditional reasoning: the test of development
- Conclusions
- 7. Heuristics and biases: insights from developmental studies / Simon J. Handley
- Developmental trends in heuristic reasoning
- The factors that affect the prevalence of heuristic reasoning: knowledge, cognitive capacity, instructions, and thinking dispositions
- The study
- Concluding comments
- 8. Culture and developments in heuristics and biases from preschool through adolescence: challenges and implications for social development / Paul Klaczynski
- Introduction
- Dual-process theories: criticisms and revisions
- Issues and potential controversies in developmental heuristics and biases research
- Emerging evidence, the age-knowledge issue, and heuristics during adolescence
- Culture and early indications of heuristics and biases
- Conclusions
- 9. Intuition, reasoning and development: a fuzzy-trace theory approach / Valerie F. Reyna
- Introduction
- Content and cognitive options
- Worked examples: reasoning about risks, probabilities, and consequences
- Conclusions and overview
- 10. Dual processes in the development of reasoning: the memory side of the theory / Charles J. Brainerd
- False memory: definition and measurement
- Theoretical bases for predicting developmental reversals in false memory
- Developmental reversals in false memory.