Infants' Sense of People
Precursors to a Theory of Mind
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- Author: Maria Legerstee, York University, Toronto
- Date Published: December 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521818483
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Infants' Sense of People focusses on infants during their first year of life, exploring how they begin to think about other people, their feelings, emotions and intentions, and how they become aware of these aspects of their own development. Drawing on a broad range of research and developmental theory, Maria Legerstee takes the view that infants have an innate sense of people at birth, which is activated through sympathetic emotions. She questions the idea that infants use physical parameters such as contingencies or motion to distinguish people from objects, and rejects the assumption that infants are mechanical creatures before they become psychological ones. She argues persuasively that before infants learn to speak, interactions with others are possible because infants have a primitive pre-linguistic 'theory of mind'. This accessible book provides a valuable synthesis of current thinking on early social and cognitive development and the origins of theory of mind.
Read more- Presents an accessible introduction to the very earliest development of our understanding of other people, focussing on the first year of life
- Draws on a broad range of research and developmental theory
- An important contribution to current thinking on early social and cognitive development and the origins of the theory of mind
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'The book provides a valuable synthesis of current theoretical approaches and research on the roots of social and cognitive development in general, with a focus on children's Theory of Mind.' Pnina S. Klein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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- Date Published: December 2005
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521818483
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- contains: 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Definitions, theories and plan of the book
2. Endogenous and exogenous influences in development
3. Animate/inanimate distinction
4. Self and consciousness
5. Dyadic interactions
6. Triadic interactions - joint engagement in 5 and 7 month-olds
7. Social influences on the infant's developing sense of people
8. The effects of affect mirroring on social and cognitive competence
9. The quality of social interaction affects infants' primitive desire reasoning
10. Social cognition - affect attunement, imitation and contingency.
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