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1 online resource (xviii, 370 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-352) and indexes. |
Contents |
Imaginative animals, pretending children ; A history of pretense in animals and children / Robert W. Mitchell -- Pretending as representation : a developmental and comparative view / Lorraine McCune, Joanne Agayoff -- Language in pretense during the second year : what it can tell us about "pretending" in pretense and the "know-how" about the mind / Edy Veneziano -- A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of the emergence of the symbolic function in children between 15 and 19 months of age : pretend play, object permanence understanding, and self-recognition / Pierre-Marie Baudonnière ... [and others] -- Caregiver-child social pretend play : what transpires? / Robert D. Kavanaugh -- Just through the looking glass : children's understanding of pretense / Angeline Lillard -- Young children's understanding of pretense and other fictional mental states / Jacqueline D. Woolley -- Pretend play, metarepresentation and theory of mind / Peter K. Smith -- Replica toys, stories, and a functional theory of mind / Greta G. Fein, Lynn D. Darling, Lois A. Groth -- Young children's animal-role pretend play / Olin Eugene Myers, Jr.-- Imaginary companions and elaborate fantasy in childhood : discontinuity with nonhuman animals / Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson -- Pretending in monkeys / Anne Zeller -- Pretending primates : play and simulation in the evolution of primate societies / Peter C. Reynolds -- Representational capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) / Sarah T. Boysen, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier -- Pretending in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans / Anne E. Russon -- Seeing with the mind's eye : eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques / Anne E. Russon, Paul L. Vasey, Carole Gauthier -- Possible precursors of pretend play in nonpretend actions of captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) / Juan Carlos Gómez, Beatriz Martín-Andrade -- Pretending culture : social and cognitive features of pretense in apes and humans / Warren P. Roberts, Mark A. Krause -- Empathy in a bonobo / Ellen J. Ingmanson -- Pretend play in a signing gorilla / Marilyn L. Matevia, Francine G.P. Paterson, William A. Hillix -- Exploring pretense in animals and children / Robert W. Mitchell. |
Summary |
It is well known that children spend much time pretending, but it is less appreciated that animals may do the same. This book compares and contrasts pretending in children and primates, and will make fascinating reading for all those interested in comparative psychology, animal behaviour and evolutionary psychology. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Imagination in children.
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Imagination in children. |
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Psychology, Comparative. |
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Imagination. |
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Animal Population Groups -- psychology. |
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Animals. |
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Child. |
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Psychology, Comparative. |
Indexed Term |
Samfundsvidenskab Psykologi. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Mitchell, Robert W., 1958-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Pretending and imagination in animals and children. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521770300 (DLC) 2001037368 (OCoLC)47081356 |
ISBN |
9780511066627 (electronic book) |
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0511066627 (electronic book) |
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0511180810 (electronic book) |
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9780511180811 (electronic book) |
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9780511542282 (electronic book) |
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9780511068751 (electronic book) |
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0511068751 (electronic book) |
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0521770300 |
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9780521770309 |
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0511060319 |
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9780511060311 |
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