The Growth Of Logical Thinking From Childhood To Adolescence

This is Volume XXII of thirty-two on a series of Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1958, this text offers a translation from French of an essay on the construction of formal operational structures to explain part of the growth of logic in a child's brain and development. It looks at propositional logic, the integration of formal thought and the operational schemata of formal logic. Translators' Introduction: A Guide for Psychologists, PART I The Development of Propositional Logic 1. The Equality of Angles of Incidence and Reflection the Operations of Reciprocal Implication 2. The Law of Floating Bodies and the Elimination of Contradictions 3· Flexibility and the Operations Mediating the Separation of Variables 4· The Oscillation of a Pendulum and the Operations of Exclusion 5· Falling Bodies on an Inclined Plane and Operations of Disjunction 6. The Role of Invisible Magnetization and the Sixteen Binary Propositional Operations 93 PART II The Operational Schemata of Formal Logic 7· Combinations of Colored and Colorless Chemical Bodies 8. The Conservation of Motion in a Horizontal Plane 9. Communicating Vessels 10. Equilibrium in the Hydraulic Press 11. Equilibrium in the Balance 12. Hauling Weight on an Inclined Plane 13· The Projection of Shadows 14· Centrifugal Force and Compensations 15· Probable Dispersions and Correlations PART III The Structural Integration of Formal Thought 16. Formal Thought from the Equilibrium Standpoint 17. Concrete and Formal Structures 18. Adolescent Thinking