Judgment and reasoning in the child

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER Ⅰ. GRAMMAR AND LOGIC = 1
• Ⅰ. CONJUNCTIONS OF CAUSALITY AND LOGICAL RELATIONS = 5
• Types of relation expressed by the conjunction 'Because' = 6
• Hypotheses drawn from the analyses of children's talk = 9
• Juxtaposition and the empirical 'Because' = 15
• The relation of implication and the logical 'Because' and 'Since' = 23
• The conjunctions 'Therefore' and 'Then' = 30
• Ⅱ. CONJUNCTIONS OF DISCORDANCE = 37
• Numerical results and types of mistake = 40
• Failure to understand discordance = 43
• Discordance and the expression 'But' = 48
• Ⅲ. CONCLUSIONS = 54
• CHAPTER Ⅱ. FORMAL THOUGHT AND RELATIONAL JUDGMENTS = 62
• Formal Reasoning = 64
• The three brothers test = 74
• Counter-test : Conversation with the child = 83
• CHAPTER Ⅲ. THE GROWTH OF RELATIVITY IN IDEAS AND NOTIONS = 96
• Ⅰ. SOME TESTS OF THE LOGIC OF RELATIONS = 97
• Method of experiment and numerical results = 98
• Brothers and Sisters = 101
• Definition of the word 'Brother' = 104
• Right and left = 107
• Ⅱ. SOME DEFINITIONS OF THE IDEAS OF FAMILY AND COUNTRY = 113
• The family = 115
• Country = 119
• Conclusion = 125
• Ⅲ. CONCLUSIONS = 130
• CHAPTER Ⅳ. HOW THE CHILD REASONS = 135
• Is the child capable of introspection? = 137
• Definitions and concepts of children : logical Addition and Multiplication = 146
• Contradiction in child thought = 163
• The psychological equivalent of non-contradiction and the notion of mental reversibility = 169
• Transduction = 180
• Conclusion : Ego-centrism and Logic = 195
• CHAPTER Ⅴ. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS = 199
• Ego-centrism of thought in the child = 201
• The difficulties of conscious realization, and the shifting of operating on to the plane of thought = 209
• Synthetic incapacity and juxtaposition = 221
• Syncretism = 227
• Transduction and insensibility to contradiction = 233
• Modality of child thought, intellectual realism and incapacity for formal reasoning = 244
• Precausality in the child = 253
• APPENDIX - NOTE ON THE COEFFICIENT OF EGO-CENTRISM = 257
• INDEX = 259