| Children Talk about the Mind Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bartsch, Karen (Author) |
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ISBN: 019511566X ISBN-13: 9780195115666 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $82.17 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1997 Annotation: 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 development through its several stages. Throughout, the book offers a splendidly written account of extensive original findings and critical new insights that will be eagerly read by students and researchers in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and psycholinguistics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Psychology | Developmental - Child |
| Dewey: 150.83 |
| LCCN: 94008235 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.13" W x 9.21" (0.85 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 development through its several stages. Throughout, the book offers a splendidly written account of extensive original findings and critical new insights that will be eagerly read by students and researchers in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and psycholinguistics. |