1st Edition
Knowing Children Experiments in Conversation and Cognition
By Michael Siegal
Copyright 1997
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
208 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, there are profound conceptual limitations in that they have little understanding of numerical and causal relations and are incapable of insight into the minds of others. Their apparent inability to perform well on traditional developmental measures has... Read more
What Children Know Before Talking. Communication with Children on Number and Measurement Problems. Detecting Causality. Representing Objects and Viewpoints. Memory and Suggestibility. Understanding Persons. Authority and Academic Skills. Models of Knowledge.
Biography
Siegal, Michael
Michael Siegal's Knowing Children, 2nd Edition is a refreshing text bringing to light the effects of assumptions of language on developmental psychological experimentation. I found the text was clearly written with well edited background information. I enjoyed the way Siegal took time to cover many areas of developmental psychology demonstrating his theory of language as a variable within each area. - Julia Gwynne (University of Lancaster)
