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Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled "Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development," this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed. Among them:
* Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and forms and involve appeal to more than one level of analysis.
* To postulate innate knowledge is not to deny that humans can acquire new concepts.
* It is unlikely that there is only one learning mechanism, even if one prefers to work with general as opposed to domain-specific mechanisms.
* The problems of induction with respect to concept acquisition are even harder than originally thought.
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Biological Contributions to Cognition | p. 1 |
| Lessons from Animal Learning for the Study of Cognitive Development | p. 3 |
| References | p. 34 |
| The Instinct to Learn | p. 37 |
| References | p. 65 |
| Neuropsychological Insights into the Meaning of Object Concept Development | p. 67 |
| References | p. 106 |
| Contrasting Conceptions of the Critical Period for Language | p. 111 |
| References | p. 129 |
| Innate Knowledge and Beyond | p. 131 |
| Physical Knowledge in Infancy: Reflections on Piaget's Theory | p. 133 |
| References | p. 167 |
| Beyond Modularity: Innate Constraints and Developmental Change | p. 171 |
| Constraining Nativist Inferences About Cognitive Capacities | p. 199 |
| The Emergence of Theoretical Beliefs as Constraints on Concepts | p. 237 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 255 |
| References | p. 256 |
| Knowledge Acquisition: Enrichment or Conceptual Change? | p. 257 |
| References | p. 291 |
| Epigenetic Foundations of Knowledge Structures: Initial and Transcendent Constructions | p. 293 |
| References | p. 321 |
| Author Index | p. 323 |
| Subject Index | p. 331 |
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ISBN: 9780805804386
ISBN-10: 0805804382
Series: Jean Piaget Symposia Series
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 360
Published: 13th May 1991
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 2.7
Weight (kg): 0.725
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