Thought alone breaks away from these short distances and physical pathways, so that it may seek to embrace the whole universe including what is invisible and sometimes even what cannot be pictured this infinite expansion of spatio- temporal distances between subject and objects comprises the principal innovation of conceptual intelligence and the specific power that enables it to bring about operations. It is doubtless capable of detours and reversals, but it never concerns anything but responses actually carried out and real objects. 120-121:Īs regards its scope, sensori-motor intelligence deals only with real entities, and each of its actions thus involves only very short distances between subject and objects. Berlyne, The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950 Chapter V, “The Growth of Thought - Intuitions and Operations”, pp. Jean Piaget, The Psychology of Intelligence, Translated from the French by Malcolm Piercy and D.
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