1st Edition

Organizing Early Experience Imagination and Cognition in Childhood

By Delmont Morrison Copyright 1999
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focusing on developmental psychology, this work features 12 essays exploring contemporary views and developments in research and theory in the relationship between imagination and cognition in childhood.

    Preface

    PART I: OVERVIEW
    The Child's First Ways of Knowing Delmont Morrison

    PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS
    Socialization and Moral Development Michael Siegal and Robin Francis Learned Helplessness in Children: Perception of Control and Casual Attributions Steven Friedlander

    Music in the Organization of Childhood Experience Peter Ostwald and Delmont Morrison

    PART III: THE CONTRIBUTION OF EXPERIENCE
    Imagination and Creativity in Childhood: The Influence of the Family Diana Shmukler A Cognitive-Affective Theory of the Development of Imagination: Family Mediation and Television Influences Jerome L. Singer and Dorothy G. Singer

    Social Cognition and Social Competence in Childhood through Adolescence Lawrence A. Kurdek

    PART IV: THE USES OF IMAGINATION
    Process and Change in Child Therapy and Development: The Concept of Metaphor Sebastiano Santostefano The Paracosm: A Special Form of Fantasy Robert Silvey and Stephen MacKeith

    The Realities of Play Brian Vandenberg

    E. Nesbit's Forty-First Year: Her Life, Times, and Symbolizations of Personal Growth Ravenna Helson

    The Development of Romantic Ideation and J. M. Barrie's Image of the Lost Boy Delmont Morrison and Shirley Linden Morrison 

     

    Biography

    Delmont Morrison