Children's Understanding: The Development of Mental Models

by Graeme S. Halford

This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular attention to the implications of Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) models for cognitive development. The first half of the book contains analyses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898599709
• ISBN13: 9780898599701
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"