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Internal necessity and contradiction in children's thinking
Author(s) -
Smedslund Jan
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
journal of research in science teaching
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.067
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1098-2736
pISSN - 0022-4308
DOI - 10.1002/tea.3660020312
Subject(s) - contradiction , cognitive dissonance , epistemology , piaget's theory of cognitive development , psychology , cognitive development , logical reasoning , cognition , concept learning , intellectual development , cognitive psychology , social psychology , philosophy , developmental psychology , neuroscience
Smedslund presents a hypothesis about logical (internal) necessity and contradiction as empirical contingencies in the determination of children's intellectual and personal development. The, difference is distinguished between Piaget's concept of equilibration (as “the accord of thought with itself”) and learning (as “the accord of thought with things”). Citing the similarity of the concept of equilibration to Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory, Smedslund holds that the direction of the changes in children's thinking is not determined by external reinforcement.