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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: essential child
    sub title: origins of essentialism in everyday thought
  name:
    name part: Gelman, Susan A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 382 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This text synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. It shows that children do not come into the world as passive recipients of data.
  table of contents: Introduction to Part I: Notes on research methods -- The inductive potential of categories -- Hidden, nonobvious properties -- Children's conceptions of nature and nurture -- Causal explanations, causal determinism -- Conclusions to Part I -- What parents say--and do not say--about essences -- Essentialism in language -- Theory theories and DAM theories -- Unfinished business -- Why do we essentialize?
  note: Susan A. Gelman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-367) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Categorization (Psychology) in children
  subject:
    topic: Cognition in children
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: Children
  subject:
    topic: Thinking
  subject:
    topic: Psychology, Child
  subject:
    topic: Child
  subject:
    topic: Comprehension
  subject:
    topic: Child Language
  subject:
    topic: Catégorisation chez l'enfant
  subject:
    topic: Cognition chez l'enfant
  subject:
    topic: Pensée
  subject:
    topic: Enfants
    topic: Psychologie
  subject:
    topic: Enfants
  subject:
    topic: Enfants
    topic: Langage
  subject:
    topic: Enfance
  subject:
    topic: thinking
  subject:
    topic: children (people by age group)
  subject:
    topic: childhood
  subject:
    topic: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
    topic: Life Stages
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Developmental
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Developmental
    topic: Lifespan Development
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
  subject:
    topic: Children
  subject:
    topic: Child psychology
  subject:
    topic: Categorization (Psychology) in children
  subject:
    topic: Children
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Cognition in children
  subject:
    topic: Cognitieve ontwikkeling
  subject:
    topic: Catégorisation
  subject:
    topic: Développement mental
  subject:
    topic: Développement de l'enfant
  subject:
    topic: Essentialisme
  classification: BF723.C27 G45 2003
  classification: 155.4/1323
  classification: 2003 F-829
  classification: WS 105.5.D2 G319e 2003
  classification: 77.55
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    title info:
      title: Essential child
    name:
      name part: Gelman, Susan A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
    identifier: (DLC) 2002008635
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    title info:
      title: Oxford series in cognitive development
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  record info:
    record content source: YNG
    record creation date: 081112
    record change date: 20260318173824.0
    record identifier: in00005703163
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng