The Working Mind Meaning and Mental Attention in Human Development

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