Words, thoughts, and theories
This text articulates and defends the 'theory theory' of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories.
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- Full title :Words, thoughts, and theories / Alison Gopnik and Andrew N. Meltzoff.
Summary
This text articulates and defends the 'theory theory' of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories.
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- Publication Date:1998, ©1997.
- Edition:1st MIT paperback ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MIT Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998, ©1997.
Notes
"A Bradford book."
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 268 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780262571265, 0262571269, 0262071754, 9780262071758
- oclc:ocm41123773
- LC Classification:BF311
- Dewey Decimal:153
Table of Contents
The other Socratic method -- The scientist as child -- Theories, modules, and empirical generalizations -- The child's theory of appearances -- The child's theory of action -- The child's theory of kinds -- Language and thought -- The Darwinian conclusion.
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