The working mind : meaning and mental attention in human development

• Main Authors: Pascual-Leone, Juan, Johnson, Janice M
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2021; MIT Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: abstraction; accommodation; affect and emotion processes; affects a; automatic inhibition; automatic or effortless attention; Biology, life sciences; causal theories; Child, developmental and lifespan psychology; chimpanzees' symbols; Cognition; cognitive development; cognitive neuropsychology; cognitive versus affective schemes; consciousness; consciousness in infants; constructivism; constructivist learning; Developmental psychology; developmental stages; dialectical constructivism; dialectics; distal versus proximal object; emergence of symbolic function; endogenous; epistemology; equilibration; executive schemes; expectancies; facilitating versus misleading situations; figurative schemes; functional invariants; hierarchical reinforcement learning; iconic versus indexical function; intelligence; intentionality; internal field factor; learning paradox; Life sciences: general issues; M-power versus M-demand trade-off; Mathematics and Science; mediation; mental; mental attention; mental flow; mental or effortful attention; mental processes in infancy; mental-attention in infancy; misleading versus facilitating situations; neoPiagetian theory; Neurosciences; object permanence; operative schemes; or executive attention; overdetermination; Piagetian conservation; processing complexity; Psychology; reality resistances; reflective abstraction; resistances; scheme learning; schemes; schemes or schemas; semiotics; sensorimotor stages; sensorimotor versus symbolic executives; signalic versus symbolic function; signals versus symbols; Society and Social Sciences; Task analysis; task analysis of infancy tasks; task analysis of symbolic processes; theory of constructive operators; theory of development; theory of mind; type-1 versus type-2 thinking; types of schemes; working memory

A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence. In The Working Mind, Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson propose a general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive...