The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children (Psychology Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781848724532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 270 str.

Jean Jean Piaget; Barbel Inhelder

Opis

'The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children' supplements the authors' previous publications on the development of thought in the child and is the result of two preoccupations: how thought that is in the process of formation acts to assimilate those aspects of experience that cannot be assimilated deductively - for example, the randomly mixed; and the necessity of discovering how the mental processes work in the totality of spontaneous and experimental searchings that make up what is called the problem of 'induction'.

Spis treści

Translators’ Preface.  Foreword.  Introduction: The Intuition of Probabilities.  Part 1: Chance in Physical Reality.  1. Notions of Random Mixture and Irreversibility  2. Centered Distributions (Normal Curves) and Uniform Distributions  3. The Discovery of a Constant Relationship in Conflict with a Fortuitous Uniform Distribution  Part 2: Random Drawings  4. Chance and "Miracle" in the Game of Heads and Tails  5. The Random Drawing of Pairs  6. The Quantification of Probabilities  Part 3: Combinatoric Operations  7. The Development of Operations of Combination  8. Operations of Permutation  9. Operations of Arrangement  10. Conclusion: Chance, Probability, and Operations.  Glossary.

O autorze

Authored by Piaget, Jean; Inhelder, Barbel