A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence.
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 function developmentally and by doing so clarifies the nature of human intelligence. Pascual-Leone and Johnson explain ""from within"" (that is, from a subject's own processing perspective) cognitive developmental stages of growth, describing key causal factors that can account for the emergence of the working mind as a functional totality. Among these factors is a maturationally growing mental attention.
By:
Juan Pascual-Leone,
Janice M. Johnson
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262045551
ISBN 10: 0262045559
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface vii Acknowledgments xiii I Foundations of a Causal Constructivist Theory: Semiotic Processes 1 Dialectical Constructivism: The Working Mind Underlying Working Memory 3 2 Problems of Cognitive Developmental Theory 33 3 Emergence of Mental Attention in Infancy: From Sensorimotor to Symbolic Processing 61 4 Meaning, Mental Attention, and the Symbolic Function 119 II Theory of Constructive Operators (TCO) 5 Schemes/Schemas and Their Causal Constructivist Learning 141 6 Automatic Attention: Effortless, Perceptual, and Personal 181 7 Mental Attention, Intelligence, and Consciousness 205 III TCO, Task Analysis, and Neuroscience 8 Process Analysis and Mental Task Analysis: Foundations 257 9 Process and Mental Task Analysis: Methods and Examples 289 10 The Working Mind Inside a Working Brain: A Neuropsychological Introduction 317 11 The Working Mind Inside a Working Brain: Functional Dimensions in Brain Semiotics 359 12 The Working Mind Model across Human Domains 397 Appendix: On Metasubjective Task Analysis (MTA) 413 Glossary 421 Notes 427 References 435 Index 471
Juan Pascual-Leone is Professor of Psychology Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. Once a student of Jean Piaget, he is a founder of neo-Piagetian approaches to cognitive development. Janice M. Johnson is Associate Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. Pascual-Leone and Johnson are Codirectors of the Developmental Processes Laboratory at York University.
Reviews for The Working Mind: Meaning and Mental Attention in Human Development
Pascual-Leone's magnum opus....I view the book as a grand research program involving many hypotheses that need to be tested....It is now the turn of the researchers, prospective doctoral students and their supervisors to operationalize constructs and hypotheses in their own preferred mode or code and test them using new methods of research which are currently available. -Cognitive Development
