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Contents

  1. Overview
  2. Part I: Toward An Organic Explanation of Conscious Cognitive Development
    1. Chapter 1: Each Child Constructs His or Her World
      1. Piaget’s Scheme
      2. The Nature of Early Schemes
      3. Neuronal Circuits in the Brain
      4. The Neuronal Circuits and the Scheme
      5. More about Schemes, or the Activation of Neuronal Circuits
        1. A Scheme, Where it is Stored, and How it is Accessed
        2. Brain Modules — Are They Predetermined?
        3. Luria’s Functional Modules
    2. Chapter 2: The Infant’s Undifferentiated World
      1. Stages 1 to 3: The Cumulative Mode
      2. A More Differentiated Way of Understanding the World
      3. The Differentiation Is Incomplete
    3. Chapter 3: A Brain Change That Contributes to Reorganization of Cognition
      1. Complete Myelination of the Sensory Tracts Stabilizes Downstream Activation
      2. The Primary Visual Area Cells of the Cerebral Cortex — Selective Gates Into the Brain
      3. More About Stage 4
    4. Chapter 4: Consciousness From a Mechanical Device
      1. Sleeping, Waking, and the Reticular Activating System
      2. A Constructivist View of Consciousness
        1. A Dilemma: The Brain is a Mechanical Device
        2. Brain Mechanics are not Inherently Mysterious
        3. Two Mysteries
      3. Consciousness Constructed From the Waking State
        1. Qualitative Scheme Changes Stages — 3 to 6
        2. Construction of the Experience of Consciousness
        3. To Begin with, the Schemes are so Undifferentiated that they Fill the Cognitive Space
        4. Along the way from Stage 4 to Stage 6, What Happens to Consciousness — What Happens to Schemes, Part of which is the RAS Scheme?
        5. After Stage 6
    5. Chapter 5: Percept and Mental Image Differentiation
      1. Piaget’s Mechanism
      2. My Mechanism
        1. Differentiation of Mental Image and Percept
      3. Returning to the Two Mysteries
      4. Other Theorists’ Ideas About Self-Object Differentiation
    6. Chapter 6: Cognitive Organizations After the Sensorimotor Period
      1. The Preoperational Period
        1. The Symbolic Phase
        2. The Intuitive Phase
      2. The Concrete Operational Period
      3. The Formal Operational Period
    7. Chapter 7: A Second Brain Change That Assists Reorganization of Cognition
      1. Equilibration and Emotion
        1. Equilibration
        2. The Role of Emotions and Their Relationship to the Brain
      2. Piaget’s Special Mechanisms
        1. Mechanism of Change to Stage-6 Cognition
        2. Mechanism of Change to Operational Cognition
      3. My Mechanism
        1. Language Development
        2. What about Myelination?
      4. Complete Myelination of the Major Sensory Tracts to the Cerebral Cortex
      5. My Hypothesis
    8. Chapter 8: Concious and Unconscious Cognition
      1. Most Cognition Is Unconscious
        1. Libet’s Work
        2. The Interplay
      2. Is Consciousness Distinct from the Waking State?
      3. Where are Our Memories, Where are Our Schemes, and How Do We Find Them?
        1. Recording a Memory
        2. Finding a Memory
      4. Dreams and the Persistent Vegetative States
        1. Consciousness While Asleep: Dreams
        2. Sleep and Dreams as Partial Shutdowns
        3. The Persistent Vegetative State
  3. Part II: Character Structure and Treatment
    1. Chapter 9: Cognitive-Motivational Structure
      1. The Three CMS Types
        1. The Intuitive CMS
        2. The Operational CMS
        3. The Symbolic CMS
        4. Symbolic Subtypes
      2. Second-Order Cognition
      3. Caregiving and CMS Type
        1. Formation of the Operational
        2. Formation of the Intuitive
        3. Formation of the Symbolic
    2. Chapter 10: Testing of CMS Theory
      1. Relative Frequency of CMS Types
      2. Reliability
      3. Prediction
      4. Attachment Theory and CMS Theory Take Different Bites of the Apple
    3. Chapter 11: Application of CMS Theory To Treatment by Mary Ahern and A. J. Malerstein
      1. Introduction
      2. Understanding the Patient’s CMS Type and Defining the Problem to be Treated
      3. Differential Treatment Approaches and Goals
      4. Case Examples
        1. Mr. W — An Intuitive
        2. Ms. S — A Symbolic
  4. Appendix: A Vignettes of Persons Who Were Assessed in Our Studies
    1. Mrs. A, Mrs. B, and Mrs. C
    2. Categorizing Mrs. A, Mrs. B, and Mrs. C
  5. Appendix B: CMS Subjects and Data for Testing
    1. Oakland Growth Study
    2. Family Socialization Project
    3. A Word About Longitudinal Studies
  6. Epilogue
  7. References
  8. Acknowledgements

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