Children's Understanding

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Preface	p. xi
Biographical Sketch	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
The Nature of Understanding	p. 1
General Processes	p. 20a
Mental Models and Representations	p. 21
Summary	p. 69
Appendix 2.A: Structure and Structure Mapping	p. 71
Appendix 2.B: The Dimensionality Metric	p. 73
Capacity and Complexity	p. 75
Summary and Conclusions	p. 139
Appendix 3.A: Symbolic Representation	p. 142
Basic Learning Processes in Cognitive Developement	p. 143
Summary and Conclusions	p. 180
Analogies and Structure-Mapping Processes	p. 183
Summary and Conclusions	p. 233
Theory	p. 236a
How Understanding Develops: A Cognitive Developmental Theory	p. 237
Domain-Specific Processes and Concepts	p. 276a
Inferences and Hypothesis Testing	p. 277
Summary and Conclusions	p. 331
Appendix 7.A: Hypothesis-Testing Predictions	p. 332
Classification, Quantification, and Conservation	p. 339
Summary and Conclusions	p. 411
Scientific Concepts	p. 413
Summary and Conclusions	p. 467
Conclusions	p. 468a
Concluding Comments	p. 469
References	p. 479
Author Index	p. 505
Subject Index	p. 513
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