| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Children, mind, and language: an introduction, -- Language and mind: methods, -- Talk about thoughts and beliefs, -- Talk about desires, -- Desires and beliefs, -- Explanations and arguments, -- Individual differences, -- Children's developing theory of mind, -- Alternatives and controversies, -- Ordinary talk about persons and minds: questions and conclusions. |
| Summary |
What, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding first emerge? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these questions and much more by taking a probing look at what children themselves have to tell us about their evolving conceptions of people and their mental lives. By examining more than 200,000 everyday conversations (sampled from ten children between the ages of two and five years), the authors advance a comprehensive "naive theory of mind" that incorporates both early desire and belief-desire theories to trace childhood de. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of, in children.
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Knowledge, Theory of, in children. |
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Child psychology.
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Child psychology. |
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Cognition. |
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Thinking. |
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Language. |
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Infant. |
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Child. |
| Indexed Term |
Children Cognition Development. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wellman, Henry M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bartsch, Karen. Children talk about the mind. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 (DLC) 94008235 |
| ISBN |
019508005X (alkaline paper) |
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9780195080056 (alkaline paper) |
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142373453X (electronic book) |
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9781423734536 (electronic book) |
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1602566208 |
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9781602566200 |
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