CiNii 図書 - The child's conception of physical causality

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 Piaget's research is evident in this collection of empirical data, systematically organized by tasks that illuminate how things work. Piaget's data are remarkably rich. In his new introduction, Jaan Valsiner observes that Piaget had no grand theoretical aims, yet the book's simple power cannot be ignored. Piaget's great contribution to developmental psychology was his "clinical method"-a tactic that integrated relevant aspects of naturalistic experiment, interview, and observation. Through this systematic inquiry, we gain insight into children's thinking. Reading Piaget will encourage the contemporary reader to think about the unity of psychological phenomena and their theoretical underpinnings. His wealth of creative experimental ideas probes into the most sophisticated ways of thinking in children. Technologies change, yet the creative curiosity of children remains basically unhindered by the consumer society. Piaget's data preserve the reality of the original phenomena. As such, this work will provide a wealth of information for developmental psychologists and those involved in the field of experimental science.

I: Explanation of Movement
I: Experiments Concerning The Nature of Air
II: The Origin of Wind and of Breath
III: Movement of The Clouds and The Heavenly Bodies
IV: Water Currents and Movements Due to Weight
V: The Child's Idea of Force
II: Prediction and Explanation
VI: The Floating of Boats
VII: The Level of Water
VIII: The Problem of Shadows
III: Explanation of Machines
IX: The Mechanism of Bicycles
X: The Steam-Engine
XI: Trains, Motor-Cars, and Aeroplanes
IV: The Child's Conception of Reality and Causality
Summary and Conclusion

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