The Visual World of the Child

ISBN-13: 9781138210844 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str.

Eliane Vurpillot

Opis

‘How do children see the world?’ is a question of immense importance which fascinates not only psychologists but also parents and all those concerned with education. In this English translation, first published in 1976, the author, provided the most comprehensive review at the time of the development of visual perception in children, a field to which she herself had made a substantial contribution.

Spis treści

Foreword by Jerome Bruner.  Preface to the French Edition by Paul Fraisse.  Introduction.  Part 1: The Role of Visual Structures in the Organisation of Spatial Relationships  1. The Evolution of Perceptual Structures  2. The Spatial Relationships Between Structures in Three-Dimensional Space  3. The Perception of Form Orientation  4. Intrafigural Spatial Relationships  5. Perceptual Organisation and the Processes of Identification and Differentiation: The Child’s ‘Syncretism’  Part 2: The Analysis of Visual Structures in Terms of their Properties  6. The Role of Verbal Mediators in Discrimination Learning  7. Selective Attention  8. The Emergence of Differentiators  Part 3: Strategies of Exploration and Criteria of Judgment  9. An Examination of Some Parameters of Visuo-Motor Exploration  10. The Role of Perceptual Activity in the Genesis of Representational Structures  11. Identity Criteria of Equivalence and Difference.  General Conclusions.  Bibliography.  Index.

O autorze

Eliane Vurpillot