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Greenberg, Daniel E. – Human Development, 1996
Developmentalists have overlooked the problem of the real impermanence of things. Though the metaphor of impermanence is central to Piagetian and neo-nativist accounts of representation, the development of the understanding of impermanence is unstudied. This article proposes that the development of the concept of impermanence is distinct from the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Object Permanence
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Bradley, Ben S. – Human Development, 1996
Suggests that Greenberg's challenge to the centrality of object permanence in developmental thinking reveals that developmentalists' theories about childhood speak about their own self-images. Notes that developmentalists have been guilty of not only the object permanence fallacy but also the genetic fallacy, or the mistaken belief that describing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology
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Muller, Ulrich; Overton, Willis F. – Human Development, 1998
Examines development of representational thought from the perspective of Jean Mandler's image-schema theory and an action-theoretical approach derived from Piaget's theory. Concludes that empirical findings fail to support hypotheses of early onset, and that representational development is more adequately interpreted within the context of an…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology