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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811850703321

Titolo

The development of thinking and reasoning / / edited by Pierre Barrouillet and Caroline Gauffroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Sussex [England] : , : Psychology Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-08394-0

1-84872-132-3

1-135-08395-9

0-203-06874-2

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BarrouilletPierre

GauffroyCaroline

Disciplina

155.413

Soggetti

Cognition in children

Reasoning in children

Child development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 Introduction - from Piaget to dual-process theories: the complexities of thinking and reasoning development; Thinking and reasoning beyond Piaget's conceptions; Dual-process approaches; PART I Thinking and reasoning: beyond Piaget's conceptions; 2 Epistemic cognition and development; 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

IntroductionCounterfactual 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; 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 innovationAnalogies 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; How do different theories account for abstract reasoning?; Development of concrete and abstract conditional reasoning: empirical data; A representational redescriptive model of abstract reasoning; PART II Dual-processes approaches

6 Dual processes and mental models in the development of conditional reasoningThe 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; Developmental trends in heuristic reasoning

The factors that affect the prevalence of heuristic reasoning: knowledge, cognitive capacity, instructions, and thinking dispositionsThe study; Concluding comments; 8 Culture and developments in heuristics and biases from preschool through adolescence: challenges and implications for social development; 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

Sommario/riassunto

<P>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.</P><P></P><P>The first part of the book illustrates how modern approaches to the study of thinking and reasoning have gone beyond the Piagetian legacy: through the investigation of avenues previously not explored, and by demonstrating that young children have higher capacities than was assumed within the Piagetian trad