The development of thinking and reasoning

<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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Barrouillet, Pierre (-), Gauffroy, Caroline
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Psychology Press c2013.
East Sussex [England] : 2013.
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628715506719
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  • 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