Studies in Reflecting Abstraction Author:Jean Piaget This translation of the French Recherches sur l'abstraction reflechissante (1977), makes available in English Piaget's only treatise on reflecting abstraction. Rich with empirical research on reflecting abstraction at work in the thinking of 4 to 12 years olds, the studies in this volume examine its role in many contexts of cognitive development... more » such as: reasoning about mathematics; forming analogies; putting objects in order by size and comparing the resulting series; and navigating through a wire maze.« less