The Child's Conception of the World
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The Child's Conception of the World is a seminal book by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget that explores how children understand reality, causality, and the physical world as their cognitive abilities develop.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Child's Conception of the World Context triple: [Jean Piaget, notableWork, The Child's Conception of the World]
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A.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is an 1883 work by Francis Galton that helped found the fields of differential psychology and eugenics by exploring the measurement and hereditary nature of human mental and physical traits.
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The Preparation of the Child for Science
The Preparation of the Child for Science is an educational work by Mary Everest Boole that explores how to cultivate children’s natural curiosity and intuitive thinking to prepare them for scientific learning.
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Language, Thought, and Reality
Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
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D.
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
The Psycho-Analysis of Children is a foundational psychoanalytic work by Melanie Klein that established key concepts of child analysis and object relations theory.
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E.
The Discovery of the Mind
The Discovery of the Mind is a seminal work of classical scholarship that explores how ancient Greek literature and thought gave rise to the concept of individual consciousness and self-awareness in Western culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Child's Conception of the World Target entity description: The Child's Conception of the World is a seminal book by developmental psychologist Jean Piaget that explores how children understand reality, causality, and the physical world as their cognitive abilities develop.
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A.
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development is an 1883 work by Francis Galton that helped found the fields of differential psychology and eugenics by exploring the measurement and hereditary nature of human mental and physical traits.
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B.
The Preparation of the Child for Science
The Preparation of the Child for Science is an educational work by Mary Everest Boole that explores how to cultivate children’s natural curiosity and intuitive thinking to prepare them for scientific learning.
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C.
Language, Thought, and Reality
Language, Thought, and Reality is a posthumous collection of essays by linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf that presents his influential ideas on how language shapes human thought and perception.
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D.
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
The Psycho-Analysis of Children is a foundational psychoanalytic work by Melanie Klein that established key concepts of child analysis and object relations theory.
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E.
The Discovery of the Mind
The Discovery of the Mind is a seminal work of classical scholarship that explores how ancient Greek literature and thought gave rise to the concept of individual consciousness and self-awareness in Western culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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developmental psychology book ⓘ psychology book ⓘ |
| author | Jean Piaget NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributesTo | Piagetian theory of cognitive stages ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| examines |
children's animistic thinking
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children's artificialism ⓘ children's realism ⓘ children's understanding of dreams ⓘ children's understanding of natural phenomena ⓘ children's understanding of physical causality ⓘ |
| field |
developmental psychology
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genetic epistemology ⓘ |
| focusesOn | preoperational stage of cognitive development ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Child's Conception of Physical Causality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | academic monograph ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTranslation | The Child's Conception of the World (English edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
research methods in child psychology
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theories of child-centered education ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | constructivist view of knowledge ⓘ |
| influenced |
educational psychology
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later research in developmental psychology ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Jean Piaget's clinical interview method ⓘ |
| investigates |
how children differentiate subjective and objective reality
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how children explain natural events ⓘ how children's explanations change with age ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
child development
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children's conception of causality ⓘ children's conception of the physical world ⓘ children's understanding of reality ⓘ cognitive development ⓘ |
| notableFor |
introduction of detailed interview techniques with children
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systematic study of children's conceptions of the world ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La représentation du monde chez l'enfant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Jean Piaget's early works on cognitive development ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alcan (original French edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | early 20th century children in Europe ⓘ |
| topic |
development of causal reasoning
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development of concepts of reality ⓘ epistemology in children ⓘ |
| usesMethod | clinical interviews with children ⓘ |
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