Research Catalog

Title

Pretending and imagination in animals and children / edited by Robert W. Mitchell.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mitchell, Robert W., 1958-

Description

xviii, 370 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Imagination in children
• Psychology, Comparative
• Imagination
• Animal Population Groups > psychology
• Animals
• Child

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-352) and indexes.

Contents

Imaginative animals, pretending children ; A history of pretense in animals and children / Robert W. Mitchell -- Pretending as representation : a developmental and comparative view / Lorraine McCune, Joanne Agayoff -- Language in pretense during the second year : what it can tell us about "pretending" in pretense and the "know-how" about the mind / Edy Veneziano -- A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of the emergence of the symbolic function in children between 15 and 19 months of age : pretend play, object permanence understanding, and self-recognition / Pierre-Marie Baudonnière ... [and others] -- Caregiver-child social pretend play : what transpires? / Robert D. Kavanaugh -- Just through the looking glass : children's understanding of pretense / Angeline Lillard -- Young children's understanding of pretense and other fictional mental states / Jacqueline D. Woolley -- Pretend play, metarepresentation and theory of mind / Peter K. Smith -- Replica toys, stories, and a functional theory of mind / Greta G. Fein, Lynn D. Darling, Lois A. Groth -- Young children's animal-role pretend play / Olin Eugene Myers, Jr.-- Imaginary companions and elaborate fantasy in childhood : discontinuity with nonhuman animals / Marjorie Taylor, Stephanie M. Carlson -- Pretending in monkeys / Anne Zeller -- Pretending primates : play and simulation in the evolution of primate societies / Peter C. Reynolds -- Representational capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) / Sarah T. Boysen, Valerie A. Kuhlmeier -- Pretending in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans / Anne E. Russon -- Seeing with the mind's eye : eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques / Anne E. Russon, Paul L. Vasey, Carole Gauthier -- Possible precursors of pretend play in nonpretend actions of captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) / Juan Carlos Gómez, Beatriz Martín-Andrade -- Pretending culture : social and cognitive features of pretense in apes and humans / Warren P. Roberts, Mark A. Krause -- Empathy in a bonobo / Ellen J. Ingmanson -- Pretend play in a signing gorilla / Marilyn L. Matevia, Francine G.P. Paterson, William A. Hillix -- Exploring pretense in animals and children / Robert W. Mitchell.

ISBN

0521770300

LCCN

^^2001037368

OCLC

• 47081356
• SCSB-11743411

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library