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Peer reviewedVosniadou, Stella – Human Development, 1994
Comments on the articles presented in this issue devoted to the Japanese perspectives on conceptual change. Discusses the overall conveyed message: The human cognitive system is a thematically organized knowledge base with agentive causality as the main mechanism for explain phenomena and analogy as the main mechanism for promoting conceptual…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedLarreamendy-Joerns, Jorge; Chi, Michelene T. H. – Human Development, 1994
Comments on the articles presented in this issue devoted to the Japanese perspectives on conceptual change. Suggests that different approaches to knowledge acquisition and conceptual change should be carefully examined in light of their implications for the teaching of science. Discusses critically the issues advanced from the Japanese…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewedMurayama, Isao – Human Development, 1994
Proposes causal field theory as a model of causal reasoning. Suggests that anomaly detection through comparison with natural events triggers causal reasoning. This anomaly is interpreted in terms of agency; therefore, natural phenomena can be understood through an appeal to agency. The mechanism proposed never changes with development, whereas…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedMatsuhita, Kayo – Human Development, 1994
Pragmatic and semantic problem solving are examined as processes that enhance acquisition of mathematical knowledge. It is suggested that development of mathematical cognition involves restructuring and that math teachers can help restructure children's knowledge systems by providing them with situations in which semantic and pragmatic problem…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedSuzuki, Hiroaki – Human Development, 1994
Proposes analogy as the central mechanism of knowledge acquisition in formal domains. Discusses experimental data on preschoolers' knowledge of one-to-one correspondence and college students' understanding of force decomposition. Suggests that a knowledge base domain is a thematically organized knowledge structure and that thematic relations in a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Force
Download full textChick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document is the fourth volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 42 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Mul and Wu:…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Motion, Mathematics Teachers, Self Efficacy
