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Childrens Discovery of the Active Mind
Phenomenological Awareness, Social Experience, and Knowledge About Cognition, SpringerBriefs in Psychology - SpringerBriefs in Child Development
ISBN/EAN: 9781461422471
Umbreit-Nr.: 1308211
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xi, 99 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 99 p. 1 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 22.11.2011
Auflage: 1/2012
- Kurztext
- InhaltsangabeChapter 1. Learning About Cognitive Activities.- Chapter 2. Conceptual Knowledge About Cognitive Activities.- Chapter 3. Phenomenological Awareness: Consciousness and the Development of Cognitive Monitoring.- Chapter 4. Social Experience as a Source of Information about Mental Events.- Chapter 5. Patterns of Influence Among Phenomenological Awareness, Social Experience, and Conceptual Knowledge.- Chapter 6. Conclusion.
- Autorenportrait
- Bradford Pillow, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at Northern Illinois University. Since receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1986, he has conducted research on the development of metacognition and social cognition in preschool children, elementary school children, and adolescents. His research focuses primarily on children's ability to infer another person's knowledge, beliefs, or visual experience, children's understanding of cognitive processes such as attention, inference, comprehension, and memory, children's ability to monitor their own cognitive states, and children's explanations of another person's behavior. Currently, he is Associate Editor for The Journal of Genetic Psychology, and Consulting Editor for Child Development.