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| Topic: | Re:How are mental operations observed? |
| Posted by: | aj malerstein |
| Date/Time: | 2010/8/5 23:21:44 |
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“As children gain in their level of cognitive development, I assume they get better at developing strategies useful in solving the types of problems they encounter. I'd like to find a couple of papers available free online that discuss whether and how such increasing ability to develop strategies fits in with stage theory.? The query launched a discussion of what is important about Piaget’s work and is now about mental operations. Taking off from Trevor’s remark, what is important about Piaget’s work is in the mental operations of the observer, I would say: To the philosopher, stages of cognitive development may not be the most important thing about Piaget’s work. To an investigator—such as, Marie Judith—and to a clinician—such, as myself—Piaget’s observations (or observables) are most important.?To investigators and clinicians, the sequence of cognitive stages (phases, levels or whatever one calls them), and whether they are brought about by construction due to disequilibrium, by language of the culture, or by maturation may be very important. |