Knowing Children - Experiments in Conversation and Cognition

Concerned with conversation and cognition in young children, this text assesses their profound conceptual limitations and considers how this inability has led researchers to accept a model of the young child as plagued by conceptual deficits.

List of contents

What Children Know Before Talking. Communication with Children on Number and Measurement Problems. Detecting Causality. Representing Objects and Viewpoints. Memory and Suggestibility. Understanding Persons. Authority and Academic Skills. Models of Knowledge.

About the author

Siegal, Michael

Summary

Concerned with conversation and cognition in young children, this text assesses their profound conceptual limitations and considers how this inability has led researchers to accept a model of the young child as plagued by conceptual deficits.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Siegal, Siegal Michael
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.1997
• EAN: 9780863777677
• ISBN: 978-0-86377-767-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought