Foundations of Mind Origins of Conceptual Thought

Name: Foundations of Mind Origins of Conceptual Thought
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ISBN: 9780195311839

ISBN-10: 0195311833

ISBN-13: 9780195311839

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jean Matter Mandler

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The Foundations of Mind presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the ways that perceptual information becomes transformed into conceptual thought. Mandler tackles issues such as how babies form concepts and begin to think before they have language, and how they can recall the past and make inductive inferences. Drawing on her extensive research, she illustrates how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and advanced thought,stressing the importance of distinguishing automatic perceptual processes from conceptualizations about what is perceived. She argues that these two kinds of learning, though sometimes confounded in psychological…

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.30" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




How to Build a Baby: Prologue



Piagets Sensorimotor Infant



Kinds of Representation: Seeing and Thinking



Perceptual Meaning Analysis and Image-Schemas: The Infant as Interpreter



Some Image-Schemas and their Functions



Some Differences between Percepts and Concepts: The Case of the Basic Level



Some Preverbal Conceptsptual System: Acquisition,



Continuity in the Conceptual System: Acquisition, Breakdown, and Reorganization






Language Acquisitionnclusions


References


Index



Consciousness and Conclusions


References


Index