Piaget, Evolution, and Development (Jean Piaget Symposia Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805822100 ISBN 13: 9780805822106

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1998

Synopsis

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, and cultural development. The authors-anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists, and psychologists-believe that a rebirth is in progress relating to the study of these mental developments. This volume seeks to illuminate this rebirth.

The varied findings and approaches reported reveal that contemporary comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration. Far from being global and fused, this comparative study is a flowering field of diverse disciplinary approaches, empirical phenomena, scholarly topics, and theoretical perspectives. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny, and history of mentation-most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing, organization of thought, symbol, and value development. The world's leading authorities on the subject discuss the implications of the study of evolution for our models of the ontogenetic origins, development, and history of mentation, as well as determine the constraints that evolution imposes on mental development.

Bringing the current interest in primate cognition to bear on studies of cognitive development in humans, this book will be of interest cognitive developmentalists, primatologists and comparitive psychologists.

About this title

About the Author:

Melanie Killen (University of Maryland) is Professor of Human Development and Associate Director of the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture at the University of Maryland. She is co-editor (with Daniel Hart) of Morality in Everyday Life: Developmental Perspectives, co-editor (with Jonas Langer) of Piaget, Evolution, and Development, and editor of Children's Autonomy, Social Competence and Interactions with Adults and Children. Her research area is social and moral development, including social reasoning about group inclusion and exclusion, implicit biases about groups, and cultural influences on development.

Jennie Lee-Kim (University of Maryland) is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation is on how Korean-American children evaluate parental expectations regarding boys' and girls' peer activity preferences.

Heidi McGlothlin (University of Maryland) is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation is on children's implicit racial biases and the role of social experience on these types of biases.

Charles Stangor (University of Maryland) is Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland. He is co-editor (with Neil Macrae and Miles Hewstone) of Stereotypes and Stereotyping and co-editor (with Janet Swim) of Prejudice: The Target's Perspective. His research area is intergroup relations, with a focus on stereotyping and prejudice.

Synopsis:

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society: The Study of Knowledge and Development, this volume of explorations by anthropologists, biologists, historians of science, paleontologists and psychologists seeks further understanding of the mechanisms of mental development. It focuses on the comparative phylogeny, ontogeny and history of mentation - most notably on the comparative onset and offset ages, velocity, extent, sequencing and organization of thought, symbol and value development. As it has been throughout its history, the guiding purpose of this comparative research continues to be determining the possibilities that evolution opens up for the ontogenic origins, development and history of mentation, as well as the constraints that evolution imposes on mental development. The contributors focused on three comparative developments for which there is increasing data, cognitive, social and cultural development. The varied findings and approaches reported in this volume reveal that comparative research on mental development is in a phase of differentiation and integration.

Far from being global and fused, the comparative study of mental development is a field of diverse empirical phenomena, scholarly topics and theoretical perspectives on its evolution and history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0805822100
• ISBN 13: 9780805822106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Langer Jonas, Killen Melanie