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Children talk about the mind
- Title
- Children talk about the mind / Karen Bartsch and Henry M. Wellman.
- Author
- Bartsch, Karen.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | BF723.C5 B27 1995 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Wellman, Henry M.
- Description
- viii, 234 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-225) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Children, Mind, and Language: An Introduction -- 2. Language and Mind: Methods -- 3. Talk about Thoughts and Beliefs -- 4. Talk about Desires -- 5. Desires and Beliefs -- 6. Explanations and Arguments -- 7. Individual Differences -- 8. Children's Developing Theory of Mind -- 9. Alternatives and Controversies -- 10. Ordinary Talk about Persons and Minds: Questions and Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 019508005X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94008235
- OCLC
- ocm29951983
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries