TY - BOOK AU - Beard,Ruth Mary TI - An outline of Piaget's developmental psychology T2 - Routledge library editions. Piaget SN - 0415402298 AV - BF721 .B33 2006 U1 - 155.4 22 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Piaget, Jean, KW - Child psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-128); Introduction --; The development of intelligence --; Introduction --; Basic cognitive processes --; Development in children's thinking --; The main periods of development --; Experiments in England --; The sensori-motor period --; Reflex exercises and primary circular reactions --; The secondary circular reactions --; Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality --; Co-ordination of secondary schemas --; Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality --; Tertiary circular reactions --; Notions of the object, space, time and physical causality --; The invention of new means through mental combinations --; Discussion --; The pre-conceptual sub-stage --; Imitation, play and rules --; Reasoning in the young child --; Implications for Nursery School teachers --; The intuitive sub-stage --; Imitation, play and rules --; The beginning of conceptual thinking --; Concepts of the world and of physical causality --; Number, time and quantities --; Spatial concepts --; Some implications for Infants' School teachers --; The sub-period of concrete operations --; The laws of groupings --; Play in the period of concrete operations --; Some late misconceptions among English children --; Limitations in thinking during the period of concrete operations --; Spatial concepts --; Discussion --; The period of formal operations --; Assumptions, hypotheses and laws --; Definitions and symbolism --; Continuity and infinity --; Relations between relations --; Implications for Secondary School teachers --; Concluding remarks ER -