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The Psychology of the Child

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In this article, the authors discuss factors in mental development, including the development of perception, concepts, and operations of thought and interpersonal relations, as well as the three levels in the transition from action to operation.
Abstract
* Introduction The Sensori-Motor Level * Sensori-motor Intelligence * The Construction of Reality * The Cognitive Aspect of Sensori-motor Reactions * The Affective Aspect of Sensori-motor Reactions The Development of Perception * Perceptual Consistencies and Perceptual Causality * Field Effects * The Perceptual Activities * Perceptions, Concepts, and Operations The Semiotic or Symbolic Function * The Semiotic Function and Imitation * Symbolic Play * Drawing * Mental Images * Memory and the Structure of Image-Memories * Language The Concrete Operations of Thought and Interpersonal Relations * The Three Levels in the Transition from Action to Operation * The Genesis of the Concrete Operations * Representation of the Universe: Causality and Chance * Social and Affective Interactions * Moral Feelings and Judgments * Conclusion The Preadolescent and the Propositional Operations * Formal Thought and the Combinatorial System * The Two Reversibilities * The Formal Operatory Schemes * The Induction of Laws and the Dissociation of Factors * The Affective Transformations * Conclusion: Factors in Mental Development

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Prototypes, metaphors, metonymies and imaginative rationality in high school mathematics

TL;DR: The growing recognition that imagination, far from being a peripheral adjunct plays a central role in reasoning has important implications for the teaching and learning of mathematics has been discussed in this paper, where examples from high school case studies are used to illustrate prototypical mathematical images and the use of imagery in metaphoric and metonymic ways in mathematics.
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Developmental aspects of children's definitions of pain

Anne Gaffney, +1 more
- 01 Jul 1986 - 
TL;DR: Definitions of pain used by 680 Irish schoolchildren were examined to see if a developmental pattern could be identified in the acquisition of a verbally mediated concept of pain, suggesting the possibility of delineating typical concepts of pain which correspond to successive stages of cognitive development.
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Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Language Use During Literature Discussions

TL;DR: The Dialogic Inquiry Tool (DIT) as mentioned in this paper ) is an observational rating scale designed to engage elementary school teachers in a systematic and deliberate examination of their interactions during group discussions of assigned readings.
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Quality of life in early adolescence: a sixteen-dimensional health-related measure (16D).

TL;DR: A 16-dimensional, generic self-assessment measure of HRQOL (16D) for early adolescents is introduced and its use with four populations of children aged 12–15 is demonstrated, capable of differentiating theHRQOL of healthy adolescents as well as patients with various diagnoses.
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Knowledge Taught in School: What Is Remembered?

TL;DR: This paper found that students retain much of the knowledge taught in the classroom, and retention decreases over time as a function of the length of the retention interval but the forgetting curves for knowledge teachers in school do not decline as rapidly or asymptote as low as the curves observed in traditional laboratory studies.