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The Development Of Scientific Thinking Skills

by Harry Beilin, Eric Amsel, Michael O'Loughlin
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Overview

How is existing knowledge reconciled with new information in the mind of a young child, as compared to that of a more sophisticated thinker?
Development of Scientific Thinking Skills explores a new framework for the conceptualization of changes in the strategies of inductive reasoning from middle childhood to adulthood.

Key Features
* Cognitive development
* Thinking skills
* Scientific thinking
* Evidence evaluation
* Theory Revision

Audience: Researchers and graduate students in cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology.

Synopsis

How is existing knowledge reconciled with new information in the mind of a young child, as compared to that of a more sophisticated thinker?
Development of Scientific Thinking Skills explores a new framework for the conceptualization of changes in the strategies of inductive reasoning from middle childhood to adulthood.

Key Features
* Cognitive development
* Thinking skills
* Scientific thinking
* Evidence evaluation
* Theory Revision

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From the Publisher

"The Development of Scientific Thinking Skills...is a comprehensive examination of the development of children's scientific thinking skills that is convincing in its breadth, creativity, and thoroughness."
--Harvard Educational Review

Book Details

Published
November 1, 1997
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Pages
249
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780124284302

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