Developing Theories of Intention - Social Understanding and Self-control (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	Philip David Zelazo • Janet Wilde Astington • David R. Olson
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-3141-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > The self, ego, identity, personality
LSN:	0-8058-3141-X
Barcode:	9780805831412

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