| Infants' Sense of People: Precursors to a Theory of Mind Contributor(s): Legerstee, Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521521696 ISBN-13: 9780521521697 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $43.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theory and focusing on infants during their first year of life, Maria Legerstee asserts that they 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'. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Developmental - Child |
| Dewey: 302.120 |
| LCCN: 2006272974 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 8.48" W x 9.02" (0.86 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Legerstee, Maria: - Maria Legerstee is Professor of Psychology at York University, Toronto, where she established the Centre for Infancy Studies in 1991. She has published in journals of development psychology and child development. |