The Mechanisms of Perception

by Jean Piaget

Overview

First published in 2006. This work represents an attempt to synthesise studies on the development of perception which Piaget started twenty or so years ago, when the Faculte des Sciences de Geneve appointed him to the Chair of Experimental Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory. Most of the studies to be reported have already appeared in the Archives de Psychologie under the general title of Recherches sur Ie Developpement des Perceptions, however, more than fifteen studies which have not been published and which we shall deal with in the following pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135660154
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Jean Piaget

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE: PRIMARY EFFECTS I PRIMARY ILLUSIONS AND THE LAW OF RELATIVE CENTRA TIONS II EFFECTS OF CENTRA TION PART TWO: PERCEPTUAL ACTIVITIES III PERCEPTUAL ACTIVITIES AND SECONDARY ILLUSIONS IV PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCIES AND CAUSALITY V PERCEPTIONS OF MOVEMENT, OF VELOCITY AND OF TIME PART THREE: STRUCTURES OF PERCEPTION AND OF INTELLIGENCE VI DIFFERENCES, SIMILARITIES AND POSSIBLE FILIATIONS BETWEEN THE STRUCTURES OF PERCEPTION AND THOSE OF INTELLIGENCE VII THE PERCEPTUAL OR NON-PERCEPTUAL ORIGINS OF THE STRUCTURES OF INTELLIGENCE VIII CONCLUSION: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF PERCEPTION