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Psychosocial Perspective on Cognitive Development: Construction of Adult-Child Intersubjectivity in Logic Tasks

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Sociogenesis Reexamined

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Obviously the concepts used in psychology at the beginning of this century were directly influenced by the then pervasive ideas of the theories of evolution. Looking back to this period it can be seen how such ideas gave a very important impulse to the study of human behavior. However several decades later, it would be well worth reviewing these concepts and either enlarging on them (as seemingly suggested by the organizers of the present symposium through the consideration of “sociogenesis”) or substituting new metaphors and concepts to the existing ones, in order to draw attention to aspects of psychological reality that the preceding perspective might cause to be neglected. This presentation takes as standpoint the crossroad of these two lines of thought. Indeed, in our opinion, suggesting new concepts (e.g., “intersubjectivity”) can be fruitful for the advance of science mostly if it can simultaneously account for both the already known phenomena and for newly described processes.

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  1. Michèle Grossen
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    Willibrord de Graaf PhD  & Robert Maier PhD (Faculty of Social Sciences) &  (Faculty of Social Sciences)

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Grossen, M., Perret-Clermont, AN. (1994). Psychosocial Perspective on Cognitive Development: Construction of Adult-Child Intersubjectivity in Logic Tasks. In: de Graaf, W., Maier, R. (eds) Sociogenesis Reexamined. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2654-3_14

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