International Library Of Psychology: The Psychology Of Intelligence

The International Library of Psychology THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE Founded by C.K.Ogden The International Library of Psychology DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY In 32 Volumes I II III The Childís Discovery of Death The Psychology of the Infant The Psychology of Special Abilities and Disabilities IV The Child and His Family V From Birth to Maturity VI The Mental Development of the Child VII The Psychology of Childrenís Drawings VIII Educational Psychology IX A Study of Imagination in Early Childhood X Understanding Childrenís Play XI Intellectual Growth in Young Children XII Conversations with Children XIII The Growth of the Mind XIV The Childís Unconscious Mind XV Infant Speech XVI The Growth of Reason XVII The Growing Child and its Problems XVIII The Childís Conception of Physical Causality XIX The Childís Conception of Geometry XX The Construction of Reality in the Child XXI The Early Growth of Logic in the Child XXII The Growth of Logical Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence XXIII Judgement and Reasoning in the Child XXIV The Moral Judgment of the Child XXV Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood XXVI The Psychology of Intelligence XXVII Mental Health and Infant Development, V1 XXVIII Mental Health and Infant Development, V2 XXIX Modern Psychology and Education XXX The Dynamics of Education XXXI Education Psychology XXXII The Principles of Teaching Anthony Bernfeld Bronner B¸hler B¸hler B¸hler Eng Fox Griffiths Hartley et al Isaacs Katz Koffka Lay Lewis Lorimer Miller Piaget Piaget et al Piaget Inhelder et al Inhelder et al Piaget Piaget Piaget Piaget Soddy Soddy Sturt Taha Thorndike Thorndike THE PSYCHOLOGY OF INTELLIGENCE JEAN PIAGET First published in 1950 by Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 1950 Jean Piaget, Translated from the French by Malcolm Piercy and D E Berlyne All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in the International Library of Psychology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace. These reprints are taken from original copies of each book. In many cases the condition of these originals is not perfect. The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of these reprints, but wishes to point out that certain characteristics of the original copies will, of necessity, be apparent in reprints thereof. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-98152-9 Master e-book ISBN The Psychology of Intelligence ISBN 0415-21006-2 (Print Edition) Developmental Psychology: 32 Volumes ISBN 0415-21128-X (Print Edition) The International Library of Psychology: 204 Volumes ISBN 0415-19132-7 (Print Edition) PREFACE A book on the “Psychology of Intelligence” could cover half the realm of psychology. The following pages are confined to outlining one view, that based on the formation of “operations,” and to determining as objectively as possible its place among others which have been put forward. The first task is to define intelligence in relation to adaptive pr