Oxford Series in Cognitive Development – serie
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11 produkter
Agency and Cognitive Development
Inbunden, 2024
667 kr
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Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any age - which they cannot.In a startlingly …
Core Knowledge and Conceptual Change
Av David Barner, Andrew Scott Baron
Inbunden, 2016
1757 kr
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We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and "democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitive state of human beings. Other concepts like "object," "cause," or "agent" may be present early in infancy--if not innately. Processes of change occur …
What Babies Know
Core Knowledge and Composition Volume 1
Inbunden, 2022
838 kr
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What do infants know? How does the knowledge that they begin with prepare them for learning about the particular physical, cultural, and social world in which they live? Answers to this question shed light not only on infants but on children and adults in all cultures, because the core knowledge …
The Essential Child
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought
Inbunden, 2003
1066 kr
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Numerous fields stake claims about essentialism but this is the first book to address the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology. Gelman synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and …
The Foundations of Mind
Origins of Conceptual Thought
Inbunden, 2004
1225 kr
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The Foundations of Mind presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the ways that perceptual information becomes transformed into conceptual thought. Mandler tackles issues such as how babies form concepts and begin to think before they have language, and how they can …
Causal Learning
Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation
Inbunden, 2007
821 kr
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The world has a causal structure, in the sense that some events make other events happen. Although understanding causal structure is essential for predicting and controlling the environment, causal structure is, at least usually, not obvious from superficial, perceptual cues. How then do our minds …
The Essential Child
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought
Häftad, 2005
759 kr
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Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as "dog," "man," or "intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea come from? In this book, Susan Gelman argues that essentialism is an early cognitive bias. Young children's …
The Foundations of Mind
Origins of conceptual thought
Häftad, 2007
785 kr
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In Foundations of the Mind, Jean Mandler presents a new theory of cognitive development in infancy, focusing on the processes through which perceptual information is transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler explores preverbal conceptualisation and shows how it forms the …
Making Minds
How Theory of Mind Develops
Inbunden, 2014
1508 kr
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Developmental psychologists coined the term "theory of mind" to describe how we understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers have provided rich, provocative data showing that from an early age, children develop a sophisticated and consistent "theory of …
Sentence First, Arguments Afterward
Essays in Language and Learning
Av Lila Gleitman, Jeffrey Lidz
Inbunden, 2020
1653 kr
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Sentence First, Arguments Afterward collects the most important papers of Lila Gleitman's career, spanning over 50 years of work. These papers explore the nature of linguistic knowledge in children and adults by asking how children acquire language, how language and thought are related, the nature …
The Origin of Concepts
Av Susan Carey
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
956 kr
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Only human beings have a rich conceptual repertoire with concepts like tort, entropy, Abelian group, mannerism, icon and deconstruction. How have humans constructed these concepts? And once they have been constructed by adults, how do children acquire them? While primarily focusing on the second …
