Book Notes

Title:

Howard Gardner (1982). Art, Mind, and Brain. Basic Books, New York.

Rating:

Not rated

p3: "Behaviourists claimed that we act in the way we do because we are reinforced for doing so and, given their focus on overt activity, these scholars denied inner life — no thoughts, no fantasies, no aspirations."

p7: "Piaget began to question children in depth, listened carefully to their responses, focussed especially on the strategies they used and the errors they made, and came up with a (then) startling conclusion — children at different ages construe the world in ways that are fundamentally different from those of adults.