Agency and Cognitive Development

Informationen zum Autor Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022). Klappentext This book argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do. Zusammenfassung This book argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Not By Learning Alone 2: Agency and Cognition I. Early Infancy 3: Goal-Directed Agency and Iconic Representations II. Toddlerhood 4: Intentional Agency and Imaginative Representations 5: Joint Agency and Perspectival Representations III. Early Childhood 6: Metacognitive Agency and Multi-Perspectival Representations 7: Collective Agency and Objective/Normative Representations IV. Moving Forward 8: An Agency-Based Model of Human Cognitive Development 9: he Child as Scientist Revisited References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Michael Tomasello, Michael (James Bonk Distinguished Profe Tomasello, Tomasello Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198896579
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889657-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Early Man, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Evolutionary anthropology / Human evolution