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Infants' sense of people : precursors to a theory of mind /
"Infants' Sense of People focuses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other people, their feelings, emotions, and intentions, and how they become aware of these aspects of their own development. Drawing on a broad range of research and develo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Infants' Sense of People focuses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other people, their feelings, emotions, and intentions, and how they become aware of these aspects of their own development. Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theory, Maria Legerstee takes the view that infants have an innate sense of people at birth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. She questions the idea that infants use physical parameters such as contingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, and rejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures before they become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that before infants learn to speak, interactions with others are possible because infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'Theory of Mind.' This accessible book provides a valuable synthesis of current thinking on early social and cognitive development and the origins of Theory of Mind."--Publisher's description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511489747 0511489749 9780511134753 0511134754 9780511201141 0511201141 9780511136948 0511136943 9781280434617 1280434619 9786610434619 6610434611 0521818486 9780521818483 0521521696 9780521521697 0511311435 9780511311437 1107145120 9781107145122 0511183291 9780511183294 |