Developing Theories of Intention: Social Understanding and Self-control - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805831428 ISBN 13: 9780805831429

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate that intentionality is a key issue in the cognitive and social sciences. Moreover, in a way that was anticipated more than a century ago by the seminal work of J. Mark Baldwin, they are beginning to reveal how the control of action is related in development to children's emerging self-conscious and their increasingly sophisticated appreciation of other people's perspectives.

This volume brings together the world's leading researchers on early social and cognitive development in an in-depth exploration of children's understanding of themselves and others.

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About the Author

Philip David Zelazo, Janet Wilde Astington, David R. Olson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0805831428
• ISBN 13: 9780805831429
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Zelazo Philip David