Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind /

What can the study of young monkeys and apes tell us about the minds of young humans? In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Juan Carlos Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances-and differences-between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are bes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gómez, Juan Carlos (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Colección:The Developing Child
Temas:
PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Hands, Faces, and Infancy: The Origins of Primate Minds
  • 2 Perceiving a World of Objects
  • 3 Practical Intelligence: Doing Things with Objects
  • 4 Understanding Relations between Objects: Causality
  • 5 The Logic of Object Relations
  • 6 Objects in the World
  • 7 Faces, Gestures, and Calls
  • 8 Understanding Other Subjects
  • 9 Social Learning, Imitation, and Culture
  • 10 Consciousness and Language
  • 11 Learning from Comparisons: The Evolution of Cognitive Developments
  • References
  • Index

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