Thinking Time
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Time
Published on 1. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-88937-202-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Time" has been much less widely studied in psychology and related disciplines than has "space." This book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the study of time-related perception, memory, identity, learning, and reasoning. With carefully selected chapters by a truly international and interdisciplinary team of authors, it provides an understanding of time and mind that goes beyond psychophysiology and experimental psychology to encompass wider phenomena, both social and educational. By providing a philosophical basis for understanding how the mind "grasps" the concept of time and the timing of behavior in cultural context, this unique book should help promote a cross-fertilization of research on this important dimension, which is so often neglected in cognitive and sociocultural research.
Reviews / Votes
"Thinking Time recasts the importance of time in how we think about human experience and gives us new language by which we can deepen our explorations of the role of time in psychology." "An interdisciplinary collection of 20 chapters. ...All are concisely written and very well edited. ... A carefully prepared volume. ...Such a diverse set of international contributors brings liveliness to the book's scholarship." MacGregor in PsycCRITIQUES, April issue 2006More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Publishing group
Hogrefe Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
For researchers and students of psychology in general, logic and linguistics, philosophy and history of psychology. Psychologie allgemein
Illustrations
18 Abbildungen, 1 Tabelle
1tab. , 18 figures
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 15.3 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-88937-202-3 (9780889372023)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Contributors; Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont and Sophie Lambolez, Time, Mind, and Otherness; Part I. Internal Timers; Francoise Macar, Time Passing, Attention, and Internal Timers; Part II. Memory in Time; Walter J. Perrig, Piaget's View on Memory in Relation to the Passage of Time; Timothy A. Salthouse, Time as a Factor in the Development and Decline of Mental Processes; Elizabeth F. Loftus, Distortions of Memory and the Role of Time; Werner Wippich, Comments on the Concept of Time and Its Explanational Value in Memory Research; Part III. Logic, Language, and Time; Denis Mieville, Logic, Language, and Time; Jean-Louis Gardies, Language of Time and Logic of Time; Jean-Blaise Grize, Time of Soft Ideas; Olivier Houde, The Time of Rationality; Jean-Paul Bronckart, The Temporality of Discourses: A Contribution to the Reshaping of Human Actions; Part IV. Developmental Timing; August Flammer, Time in Developmental Psychology: Development in Time; Francoise D. Alsaker, August Flammer, and Urs Tschanz, Time Use in Adolescence; Carsten Wrosch and Jutta Heckhausen, Being On-Time or Off-Time: Developmental Deadlines for Regulating One's Own Development; Willem Koops, Are We at the End of the "Century of the Child"? Historical Changes in Theorizing on Child Development; Part V. Time for Learning; Jean-Francois Perret, Time for Learning; Alain Mercier, Maria Luisa Schubauer-Leoni, Elisabeth Donck, and Rene Amigues, The Intention to Teach and School Learning: The Role of Time; Jacques Perriault, Time in Knowledge Building Processes with Interactive Videoconferences; Pierre Dominice, Learning in Adulthood; Part VI. Pluritemporality of Humans and Their Artifacts; Bruno Latour, Trains of Thought: The Fifth Dimension of Time and its Fabrication.