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Detrick, Douglas – Humanist, 1981
Maintains that concepts such as self-object mirroring are bridging humanistic psychology and psychoanalysis. Information is presented on the self-psychology of Chicago psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Humanism, Individual Development, Individual Psychology
Smolucha, Larry; Smolucha, Francine C. – 1986
This paper presents four major features of L. S. Vygotsky's theory of creative imagination. The first feature discussed is that imagination is the internalization of children's play. It is explained that the development of imagination parallels the development of speech which originates in the child's social dialogue with adults, passes through an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Creative Development
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Kinlaw, C. Ryan; Kurtz-Costes, Beth – Developmental Review, 2003
Reviews research on development of children's beliefs about intelligence; proposes that this development represents simultaneous processes of concept acquisition and theory building. Discusses research foci on children's definitions of intelligence, beliefs about the component structure of intelligence, criteria children use to evaluate ability,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Children, Concept Formation
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Lambert, Beverley – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1996
Used a Partially Ordered Scaling of Items method to analyze block construction play in a replication of Innes and King-Shaw's 1985 study. Found several developmental pathways for block play, illustrating the web-like nature of conceptual development. Results suggest a contextual developmental approach to better acknowledge individual diversity in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Context Effect, Early Childhood Education
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Dawson, Theo L.; Gabrielian, Sonya – Developmental Review, 2003
Compares concepts defining Kohlbergian stages of moral development with those associated with orders of hierarchical complexity determined with a generalized content-independent stage-scoring system. Finds that Kohlberg's sequence generally matches that identified with the scoring system and that contract and authority concepts match the concepts…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Concept Formation
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Holmboe, Christian; Scott, Phil H. – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2005
Within-group similarities and between-group differences are used to illustrate the socio-cultural nature of the concept-building process in highly collaborative computer science classrooms. Simultaneously, a social constructivist perspective is used to describe the individual aspects of this development. The study uses written explanations from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Concept Formation, Individual Development, Constructivism (Learning)
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Muller, Ulrich; Overton, Willis F. – Human Development, 1998
Examines development of representational thought from the perspective of Jean Mandler's image-schema theory and an action-theoretical approach derived from Piaget's theory. Concludes that empirical findings fail to support hypotheses of early onset, and that representational development is more adequately interpreted within the context of an…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
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Madole, Kelly L.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Developmental Review, 1999
Demonstrates the need for a process-oriented, constructivist approach to understanding infants' categorization abilities. Suggests that emphasizing the distinction between perceptual and conceptual categorization has been an obstacle to forging an approach. Proposes a more microanalytic consideration of features available to infants at different…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Furth, Hans G. – Human Development, 1996
Claims that mind and mental objects form a societal mental structure enabling children to assimilate the society and become co-constructing members. Cites evidence that competence to create mental objects, symbols, and meanings separated from action is the evolutionary evolved human capacity for society and culture. Vygotsky's "natural"…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Hoyle, Rick H.; Kernis, Michael H.; Leary, Mark R.; Baldwin, Mark W. – 1999
Much has been written on the self during the latter half of the twentieth century, a period when citizens of the free world have embraced self-esteem and the pursuit of self-interest as fundamental entitlements. This widespread interest in the self has produced a large amount of information and misinformation. This book aims to summarize the…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Egocentrism, History, Individual Development
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Commons, Michael Lamport; Trudeau, Edward James; Stein, Sharon Anne; Richards, Francis Asbury; Krause, Sharon R. – Developmental Review, 1998
Discusses hierarchical complexity of tasks as a way of conceptualizing information in terms of the power required to complete a task, and its implications for developmental psychology and information science. Provides an analytic solution to the definition of developmental stages and allows for the possibility within the science of scaling the…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Definitions
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Tomasello, Michael – Human Development, 1996
Recent research has established closer links between language, cognition, and social life than Piaget or Vygotsky imagined. Connections have been established between object permanence development and acquisition of disappearance words and the quantity and quality of child-adult joint attentional social interactions and children's early word…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Individual Development
Tomic, Welko; Kingma, Johannes – 1996
The development of cognitive representation is the main theme of three classic theories (Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky) on how children learn concepts. Piaget considered structural change as a necessary condition for development; Bruner emphasized both internal and external function and the structural changes brought about by function; and Vygotsky…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
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Brockmeier, Jens – Human Development, 1996
Examines two prominent positions in the epistemological foundations of psychology--Piaget's causal explanatory claims and Vygotsky's interpretive understanding; contends that they need to be placed in their wider philosophical contexts. Argues that the danger of causally explaining cultural practices through which human beings construct and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Comprehension, Concept Formation
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Meacham, Jack – Human Development, 1996
Uses example of racism to compare Vygotsky's and Piaget's perspectives on the development of mind within the framework of questions regarding the mutual influence of societies and individuals. Notes that Vygotsky emphasizes knowledge transmission from older to younger, whereas Piaget emphasizes construction of new knowledge with potential for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
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