First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed. Among these themes are: Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and forms and involve appeal to more than one level of analysis. To postulate innate knowledge is not to deny that humans can acquire new concepts. It is unlikely that there is only one learning mechanism, even if one prefers to work with general as opposed to domain-specific mechanisms. The problems of induction...

A unique compendium of international investigations into motivation and performance, this book offers chapters by industrial and organizational psychologists from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan as they share their theories, concepts, empirical evidence, and practical evidence regarding the subject. The volume focuses on three distinct themes: * the relationship between motivation and performance * practical examples of building and strengthening the motivating potential with particular attention paid to productivity and the health of the employees * the development of work...

This book focuses on the major issues surrounding worksite health promotion programs. It identifies and discusses examples of the most intensively studied programs (such as Johnson and Johnson's "Live for Life," and AT&T's "TLC"), and considers the "state of science" for the four most frequently offered health-promotion program components: smoking cessation, weight control, exercise, and stress management.

As is becoming increasingly evident, worksite health-promotion activities pose their own unique set of challenges -- challenges that are likely to have a significant impact on national...

Each chapter in this book focuses on one or more performances that clinical practitioners must achieve with some regularity. It explores ways - communication and literary theory, ethnography, and discourse analysis - to express what practitioners do in clinics and hospitals.

A person's values affects profoundly what he/she attends to, thinks about and remembers. This text begins with an overview of what is known about the developmental role of valuation in the acquisition of knowledge and examines ideas of the connection between evaluation and thinking.

This text looks at culture, thought and development in terms of epistemology, developmental psychology, cognitive evolution, the personal and social, emotions, change, selfhood, individualism/collectivism, class, morality, the mind, spatial reference and semantic development.

This book's goal is to go beyond traditional accounts of human symbol skills to examine the development and consequences of symbolic communication. The editors explore the significance of communicating symbolically as a means for understanding human symbol skills. Symbolic communication may play a central role in the representation and manipulation of symbols, processes which seem to have gotten more attention than communication has. The process of communicating with symbols, perhaps to oneself, or to a real or hypothetical other, may be a central element in explanations of what information...