Children Talk about the Mind
Children Talk about the Mind by Karen Bartsch, published by Oxford University Press in 1997, is a revised edition comprising 234 pages. This book explores the critical phase of childhood development concerning children’s understanding of the mind and its implications for learning, language, and socialization. Bartsch and her co-author delve into what children comprehend about mental states and the timeline of this understanding, drawing on extensive research and everyday conversations to illuminate their findings.
Readers will discover a comprehensive “naive theory of mind” that integrates early desire and belief-desire theories, tracing the stages of childhood development. The authors present original findings and insights that contribute to the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and psycholinguistics. This work offers a detailed examination of children’s evolving conceptions of people and their mental lives, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in these subjects.
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The emerging concept of other people is a critical phase in childhood develoment with deep implications for learning, language and the entire socialization process. But what, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding first occur? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these questions and much more by looking at what children themselves have to tell us about their evolving conceptions of people and their mental lives. By examining thousands of everyday conversations the authors advance a comprehensive “naive theory of mind” that incorporates both early desire and belief-desire theories to trace childhood development through its several stages. Throughout, the book offers a splendidly written account of extensive original findings and critical new insights that will be eagerly read by students and researchers in developmental psychology, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and psycholinguistics.
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