J. Piaget's theory of intelligence: operational aspect

Piaget’s Need for the Concept of Metaphoric Operativity

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, ...

Structures-of-the-whole Is Thfre Any Glue to Hold the Concrete-operational "stage" Together?

Thinking at Piaget's Stage of Formal Operations

P iaget's theory of cognitive de velopment changed the way psy chologists and educators view children's intellectual development. However, with the widespread ac ceptance of Piaget's insight and theory has also come research that modifies and refines his contribution. According to Piaget, there are four major stages of development: the sensory-motor, the pre-operational, the concrete operationa...

An Abstract State Machine Specification and Verification of the Location Consistency Memory Model and Cache Protocol

We use the Abstract State Machine methodology to give formal operational semantics for the Location Consistency memory model and cache protocol. With these formal models, we prove that the cache protocol satisfies the memory model, but in a way that is strictly stronger than necessary, disallowing certain behavior allowed by

Systematic and Metasystematic Reasoning: A Case for Levels of Reasoning beyond Piaget's Stage of Formal Operations

COMMONS, MIC»AEL L , RICHARDS, FRANCIS A , and KUHN, DEANNA Systematic and Metasystematic Reasoning A Case for Levels of Reasoning beyond Piaget's Stage of Formd Operations CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1982, 53, 1058-1069 McSes of cognition are postulated consistmg of thirdand fourth-order operations, they are hypothesized to be qualitatively disbntt from, and hierarchically related to, the form of reaso...