Transcription of Visual-Spatial Thinking - Lynn Hellerstein
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Chapter 20. Visual-Spatial ThinkingTHE THEORETICAL BASIS OFVISUAL-COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCEJean Piaget and Hans Furth subdividedintelligence into three categories: (1) biolog-ical intelligence (Furth s term), (2) sensori-motor intelligence, and (3) operationalintelligence (Furth, 1986).1 Biological intelli-gence is prewired in utero and is manifestafter birth in the form of developmentalreflexes. Sensorimotor intelligence can bereferred to as action knowing, and contin-ues throughout adult life. When Piaget dis-covered object permanence (which occursdevelopmentally in a child around 2 years ofage and involves the ability to do things at amental level in the child s head ratherthan solely to know them through physicalaction), he became more fascinated andinvolved with what he termed operationalintelligence.
Visual-Spatial Thinking THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF VISUAL-COGNITIVE INTELLIGENCE Jean Piaget and Hans Furth subdivided intelligence into three categories: (1) biolog- ... shown that the existence of these primitive reflexes can inhibit sensorimotor function and that removal of the reflex obligatory respons-
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