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Author Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980, author.

Title The mechanisms of perception / Jean Piaget ; translated by G.N. Seagrim.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, [1969]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  155.413 P579M    Check Shelf
Description xxix, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Translation of: Les mécanismes perceptifs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Primary illusions and the Law of Relative Centrations -- Effects of centration -- Perceptual activities and secondary illusions -- Perceptual constancies and causality -- Perceptions of movement, of velocity and of time -- Difference, similarities and possible filiations between the structures of perception and those of intelligence -- The perceptual or non-perceptual origins of the structures of intelligence -- Conclusion: the epistemology of perception.
Summary This major work represents a synthesis of Piaget's pioneering studies on the development of perception (many of them reported here for the first time), which he has conducted over the past quarter-century. Perception has been studied in many ways. Piaget's investigations, however, have focused on two general problems to which most specialists have paid little attention: (1) the relationship between perception and intelligence and (2) the epistemological status of perception compared with that of other forms of knowledge. Toward the solution of these and other problems, Piaget applies his well-known genetic method. From exhaustive investigations into perceptual illusions, and their strengthening or weakening under different conditions and with subjects of different ages, Piaget proceeds to an examination of the structures of intelligence and their relation to perception.-- Book Jacket.
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Subject Perception.
Perception in children.
Cognitive psychology.
Psychology.
Cognitive psychology. (OCoLC)fst00866541
Perception. (OCoLC)fst01057622
Perception in children. (OCoLC)fst01057641
Psychology. (OCoLC)fst01081447
Perception. (DNLM)D010465
Added Author Seagrim, Gavin, translator.
Added Title Mécanismes perceptifs. English. 1969
Other Form: Online version: Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. Mécanismes perceptifs. English. Mechanisms of perception. New York, Basic Books [1969] (OCoLC)561687753
Online version: Piaget, Jean, 1896-1980. Mécanismes perceptifs. English. Mechanisms of perception. New York, Basic Books [1969] (OCoLC)608608864
ISBN 0465044328
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