The child's conception of physical causality / Jean Piaget.

Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from o...

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Main Author: Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:International library of psychology. Developmental psychology ; 18.
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505 0 |a THECHILD'S CONCEPTION OF PHYSICAL CAUSALITY; Copyright; Contents; Section I: Explanation of Movement; Chapter I. Experiments Concerning the Nature of air; 1. Pressure of the hands; 2. The air of the punctured ball, of the tube, and of the pump; 3. The making of air and the movement of projectiles; 4. Centrifugal force; Chapter II. The Origin of Wind and of Breath; 1. The formation of wind; 2. Breathing; Chapter III. Movement of the Clouds and the Heavenly Bodies; 1. The movement of clouds, ; 2. The movement of the heavenly bodies. 
505 8 |a Chapter IV. Water Currents and Movements due to Weight 1. The waves of the lake; 2. The current of rivers; 3. The suspension of the sun and moon, and the fall of heavy bodies to the ground; Chapter V. The Child'sidea of Force; 1. How the child explainsmovement; 2. Definition of the idea of force; 3. Origin of the idea of force; Section II:Prediction and Explanation; Chapter VI. The Floating of Boats; 1. First and second stages: boats float for moral or dynamic reasons. 
505 8 |a 2. Third stage: boats float owing to their own or to acquired movement and because they are light in relation to the total mass of water 3. Boats float for static reasons; Chapter VII. The Level of Water; 1. First stage: the water rises because of the weight of the submerged body; 2. Second and third stages: the rôle of volume is understood and made explicit; 3. Conclusions; 4. Prediction and explanation of the phenomenon of communicating vessels in children from 8 to 12 years old; Chapter VIII. The Problem of Shadows. 
505 8 |a 1. First stage: shadow is a substance emanating from the object and participating with night 2. Second stage:shadow is a substance emanating from the object alone; 3. Third stage: shadow is a substance which flees from light; 4. Conclusions; Section III: Explanation of Machines; Chapter IX. The Mechanism of Bicycles; 1. First stage:the cause of the movement is synthetic; 2. Second stage:the various parts are necessary but unrelated; 3. Third and fourth stages: the search for contacts and mechanical explanation; Chapter X. The Steam-Engine. 
505 8 |a 1. First stage: the wheel turns because of the fire 2. Second stage: the wheel turns because of the water; 3. Third stage: the wheel turns because of the steam; Chapter XI. Trains, Motor-Cars, and Aeroplanes; 1. Steam-engines and motor-boats; 2. Motorcars and aeroplanes; 3. Conclusions; Section IV: The Child'sConception of Reality and Causality; Summary and Conclusion; 1. The child's reality; 2. Causality and the child; 3. The child's idea of law; 4. Assimilation and imitation; 5. Child logic; 6. Logic and reality; Index of Names; Index of Subjects. 
520 |a Our encounters with the physical world are filled with miraculous puzzles-wind appears from somewhere, heavy objects (like oil tankers) float on oceans, yet smaller objects go to the bottom of our water-filled buckets. As adults, instead of confronting a whole world, we are reduced to driving from one parking garage to another. The Child's Conception of Physical Causality, part of the very beginning of the ground-breaking work of the Swiss naturalist Jean Piaget, is filled with creative experimental ideas for probing the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. The strength of P. 
650 0 |a Causation. 
650 0 |a Physics. 
650 0 |a Child psychology. 
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650 7 |a PSYCHOLOGY  |x Developmental  |x Lifespan Development.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a PSYCHOLOGY  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Causation  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Child psychology  |2 fast 
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