The Child's Discovery of the Mind

Jean Piaget investigated children's discovery of the mind in the 1920s and concluded that they had little understanding before the age of six. But over the last twenty years, researchers have begun to challenge his methods and revise his conclusions. In 'The Child's Discovery of the Mind', Janet Wilde Astington surveys this lively area of research in developmental psychology.

List of contents

What Is the Mind? What Does the Mind Do? People and Things Thoughts and Things Thought and Language Thinking about Wanting Thinking about Knowing Thinking about Believing The Undiscovered Mind Causes and Consequences Notes Suggested Reading Index

About the author

Janet Wilde Astington is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto.

Summary

"Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery for intellectual and social development.

Product details

• Authors: Janet W. Astington, Janet Wilde Astington
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780674116429
• ISBN: 978-0-674-11642-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Series: The Developing Child; Developing Child
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine