Piaget’s Need for the Concept of Metaphoric Operativity
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In Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood, Piaget addresses himself to the formation of symbols in children’s thinking, symbolic functioning, and the transition from symbolic thought to operational thought. This work is an attempt by Piaget to explain and reconcile the easily observed differences between literal functioning, which he calls operational intelligence, and figurative functioning, which he calls symbolic or preoperational intelligence, Furth is of the opinion that:
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تاریخ انتشار 2007