Origins and Early Development of Human Body Knowledge

Klappentext This Monograph examines the development of infants' and toddlers' knowledge about human bodies. The concept of the human body is highly complex and operates on several levels of knowing. We move our bodies and recognize similar movements in the bodies of others, we have expectations about how bodies are typically built, and we have detailed knowledge about internal and external parts of the body and their functions. In the work presented here, the authors explore how these aspects of body knowledge originate in the first few years of life, and report a series of studies that documents the development of infants' and toddlers' knowledge about the structure of the human body. Results from the studies indicate that infants' knowledge about the structure of the human body is initially highly schematic, becoming more detailed and specific in the second year of life. Zusammenfassung The concept of the human body is highly complex and operates on several levels of knowing. This monograph examines the development of infants' and toddlers' knowledge about human bodies.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Heron, Virginia Slaughter, Virginia Heron Slaughter
• Assisted by: Michelle Heron (Editor), Virginia Slaughter (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2004
• EAN: 9781405131896
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-3189-6
• No. of pages: 117
• Series: Monographs of the Society for; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology