Child psychology in twelve questions /
Child psychology as a scientific enterprise is about 100 years old, but while numerous textbooks and practical guides are available, the more meditative questions about the nature of a child's mind are rarely asked. This book explores some of the enduring questions in developmental psychology:...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Where does love come from? : Attachment theory
- How do children learn words? : Universality and variation
- Does language change how children think? : The contested relation between language and thought
- Do children live in a fantasy world? : Pretending and the origins of the imagination
- Are children natural psychologists? : One or two early theories of mind
- Can we trust children's memory? : The vulnerable eyewitness
- Do children understand emotion? : Children's insight into their inner lives
- How do children tell right from wrong? : The origins of morality
- Do children trust what they are told? : The role of trust in cognitive development
- Do children believe in magic? : Magic and miracles
- Is developmental psychology ethnocentric? : Cross-cultural differences in ways of thinking
- What have we learned? : Children's minds.