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Highlighting the relationship between scale and collaboration, this video clip shows a teacher encouraging two infants to explore the objects around them without bringing them to their mouths. She places a large sheet of Mylar on the floor along with jars of paint and brushes. Will the infants experiment with spreading paint over the Mylar or with squeezing paint from the brushes? The highlight is a brief moment of accidental collaboration that quickly...
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Carried in the womb, carried by their parents, and, finally, carried by their own two feet, children are continuously absorbing the stimuli of their world. In this program, mothers and fathers and a wide range of specialists provide insights into the stages of perception experienced in the first three years of life. Topics related to the perception process include parental roles in child-raising, the daily interactions that mold the physiology of...
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"In The Cradle of Thought Peter Hobson presents a new and provocative theory about the nature and origins of uniquely human thinking." "A prevailing opinion on the acquisition of thought and language is that babies are born with pre-programmed modules in the brain. But this is too narrow and too simplistic an explanation. Professor Hobson's radical view is that what gives us the capacity to think is the quality of a baby's exchanges with other people...
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"How we learn to think, perceive, remember, talk, reason and learn is a central topic in psychology - and one that sees constant new research. In this very readable book, David Cohen discusses the latest studies and covers all the controversies that have dogged the subject for nearly 150 years. He examines the work of the 'greats' like Piaget, Freud and Vygotsky and shows how the issues that have intrigued psychologists relate to any child growing...
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"In this book, Vasudevi Reddy draws on the every-day emotional engagements often reported by parents as well as a wide body of recent research in psychology. Using compelling evidence that young babies can tease, joke, pretend, clown, and show off, she shows that the awareness of different aspects of other people's minds - attention and intentions and expectations - develops from an early age." "Reddy deals with the persistent problem of other minds...
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