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Children talk about the mind / Karen Bartsch and Henry M. Wellman

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Bartsch, Karen
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Wellman, Henry M.
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Contents
Children, mind, and language: an introduction, -- Language and mind: methods, -- Talk about thoughts and beliefs, -- Talk about desires, -- Desires and beliefs, -- Explanations and arguments, -- Individual differences, -- Children's developing theory of mind, -- Alternatives and controversies, -- Ordinary talk about persons and minds: questions and conclusions.
Summary
What, exactly, do children understand about the mind? And when does that understanding first emerge? In this groundbreaking book, Karen Bartsch and Henry Wellman answer these questions and much more by taking a probing look at what children themselves have to tell us about their evolving conceptions of people and their mental lives. By examining more than 200,000 everyday conversations (sampled from ten children between the ages of two and five years), the authors advance a comprehensive "naive theory of mind" that incorporates both early desire and belief-desire theories to trace childhood de
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ISBN
019508005X (alk. paper)
9780195080056 (alk. paper)
142373453X (electronic bk.)
9781423734536 (electronic bk.)
1602566208
9781602566200
9786610443291
6610443297
019511566X
9780195115666
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
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