On the Psychological Reality of Cognitive Structures: A Tentative Synthesis of Piaget's and Bruner's Theories.

Steiner, Gerhard

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On the Psychological Reality of Cognitive Structures: A Tentative Synthesis of Piaget's and Bruner's Theories

Steiner, Gerhard

Child Development, 45, 4, 891-899, Dec 74

Piaget's concept of "internalization" is analyzed and related to Bruner's representational theories of cognitive development. Cognitive structures are shown to be real exclusively in an actual representation. (Author/SDH)

Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Psychology, Mobility, Symbolic Learning

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