Children Talk About The Mind

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ID23400646
AuthorsKaren Bartsch (0000-0001-7776-7777), Henry M Wellman (0000-0001-6745-6959)
Year1995
Pages234
Publication date1995-01-26
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChildren talk about the mind (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195080056.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388250238
Open LibraryOL1084419M
ISBN9780195080056
LanguageEN
Citations received210

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.

Cognition · Cognitive development · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Linguistics · Psycholinguistics · Theory of mind · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Philosophy · Psychology · Begrip · Child · Child & Adolescent · Child development · Child psychology · Cognition chez l'enfant · Cognition in children · Developmental · Family & Relationships · Infant · Intellect · Kinderen · Knowledge, Theory of, in children · Language · Metacognitie · Philosophy of mind in children · Psychotherapy · Théorie de l'esprit chez l'enfant · Thinking

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