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The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action: From Infancy to Adulthood (Essays in Developmental Psychology) - Hardcover

Buch 21 von 25: Essays in Developmental Psychology

White, Peter Anthony

 
9780863773419: The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action: From Infancy to Adulthood (Essays in Developmental Psychology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0863773419 ISBN 13: 9780863773419
Verlag: Psychology Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood.

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Peter Anthony White

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This book is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen from origins in infancy to mature forms of adulthood. There are two distinct but related ways in which people understand things as happening, denoted by the terms "causation" and "action". The book is concerned with both. The central claim and organising principle of the book is that, by the end of the second year of life, children have differentiated two core theories of how things happen. These theories deal with causation and action. The two theories have a common point of origin in the infant's experience of producing actions, but thereafter diverge, both in content and realm of application. Once established, the core theories of causation and action never change, but form a permanent metaphysical underpinning on which subsequent developments in the understanding of how things happen are erected. The story of development is therefore largely the story of how further concepts become attached to and integrated with the core theories. Although the developmental and adult literatures on causal understanding appear at first glance to have little in common, in fact this appearance is illusory, and the idea of two theories helps to bring the two literatures in contact with each other. The book begins with a survey of the main philosophical ideas about causation and action. Following this the possible origins of understanding in infancy are reviewed, and separate chapters then deal with the development of understanding of action and causation through childhood. This is then linked to the adult understanding of action and causation, and the literature on adult causal attribution and causaljudgement is reviewed from this perspective.

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Verlag
Psychology Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0863773419
ISBN 13 
9780863773419
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
334
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