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| Preface | p. xi |
| Biographical Sketch | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| The Nature of Understanding | p. 1 |
| General Processes | p. 20a |
| Mental Models and Representations | p. 21 |
| Summary | p. 69 |
| Appendix 2.A: Structure and Structure Mapping | p. 71 |
| Appendix 2.B: The Dimensionality Metric | p. 73 |
| Capacity and Complexity | p. 75 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 139 |
| Appendix 3.A: Symbolic Representation | p. 142 |
| Basic Learning Processes in Cognitive Developement | p. 143 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 180 |
| Analogies and Structure-Mapping Processes | p. 183 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 233 |
| Theory | p. 236a |
| How Understanding Develops: A Cognitive Developmental Theory | p. 237 |
| Domain-Specific Processes and Concepts | p. 276a |
| Inferences and Hypothesis Testing | p. 277 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 331 |
| Appendix 7.A: Hypothesis-Testing Predictions | p. 332 |
| Classification, Quantification, and Conservation | p. 339 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 411 |
| Scientific Concepts | p. 413 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 467 |
| Conclusions | p. 468a |
| Concluding Comments | p. 469 |
| References | p. 479 |
| Author Index | p. 505 |
| Subject Index | p. 513 |
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Children's Understanding
by Halford, Graeme S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-10-01
Publisher(s): Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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