Nelson, Katherine.

Young Minds in Social Worlds : Experience, Meaning, and Memory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (330 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Modern Metaphors of the Developing Child -- 2. Perspectives on Meaning -- 3. Being an Infant, Becoming a Child -- 4. Toddling toward Childhood -- 5. Experiential Semantics of FirstWords -- 6. Entering the SymbolicWorld -- 7. Finding Oneself in Time -- 8. Entering a Community of Minds -- 9. The Study of Developing Young Minds -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.

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Child psychology.
Child psychology-Social aspects.
Cognition in children.
Human information processing in children.


Electronic books.

BF721

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