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The issue that I should like to take as my central concern pertains most broadly to organization of achievements in development. If the notion of organization is taken to imply a differentiation of parts in a system and an interdependence of the parts through specifiable relations within the system, the issue of organization may be addressed at the level of actions or at the level of structurations of cognitive processes manifested in actions. One of the attractions of studying development during infancy stems from the relative lack of differentiation between the level of actions and of thought during this period. In the course of this presentation, I should like to share with you some observations on the interrelationships between various achievements stemming from a longitudinal study of a small group of infants as well as some speculations on the implications these observations have for the question of organization in early cognitive development.
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Uzgiris, I.C. (1977). Some Observations on Early Cognitive Development. In: Appel, M.H., Goldberg, L.S. (eds) Topics in Cognitive Development. Topicsin Cognitive Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4175-8_6
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