Book description
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.
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 tradition. The second part focuses upon theoretical and empirical investigations of the interplay between logic and intuition in reasoning and decision making, and how these forms of thinking evolve with age, through the general framework of what is known as dual-process theories. Contrary to Piaget’s claim, it becomes apparent that elaborate adult reasoning could rely on some form of intuition.
The Development of Thinking and Reasoning provides psychologists, educators and everyone interested in child development with an integrated and up-to-date series of chapters, written by prominent specialists in the areas of thinking, reasoning, and decision making.
Table of contents
- 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
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PART I Thinking and reasoning: beyond Piaget’s conceptions
- 2 Epistemic cognition and development
- 3 The development of the rational imagination: how children create counterfactual alternatives to reality
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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 innovation
- Analogies 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
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PART II Dual-processes approaches
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6 Dual processes and mental models in the development of conditional reasoning
- The 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
- 8 Culture and developments in heuristics and biases from preschool through adolescence: challenges and implications for social development
- 9 Intuition, reasoning and development: a fuzzy-trace theory approach
- 10 Dual processes in the development of reasoning: the memory side of the theory
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6 Dual processes and mental models in the development of conditional reasoning
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Development of Thinking and Reasoning
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Psychology Press
- ISBN: 9781135083946
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