| Description |
viii, 142 : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-076X ; serial no. 299 vol. 76 no. 2 2011 |
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Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 76, no. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-122) and index. |
| Note |
Series editor: W. Andrew Collins. Includes contributions by Tara Callaghan, Henrike Moll, Hannes Rakoczy, Felix Warneken, Ulf Liszkowski, Tanya Behne, and Michael Tomasello. |
| Contents |
Abstract -- Introduction -- General methodology -- Individual studies -- General discussion. |
| Summary |
"In the current monograph, we report on a series of eight studies in which we systematically assessed the social-cognitive skills of 1- to 3-year-old children in three diverse cultural settings. One group of children was from a Western, middle-class cultural setting in rural Canada and the other two groups were from traditional, small-scale cultural settings in rural Peru and India. In the first group of studies, we assessed 1-year-old children's most basic social-cognitive skills for understanding the intentions and attention of others: imitation, helping, gaze following, and communicative pointing. Children's performance in these tasks was mostly similar across cultural settings. In a second group of studies, we assessed 1-year-old children's skills in participating in interactive episodes of collaboration and joint attention.... In the final pair of studies, we assessed 2- to 3-year old children's skills within two symbolic system (pretense and pictorial)."--Abstract. |
| Form |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Cognition in children -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Developmental psychology.
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| Added Author |
Callaghan, Tara C., 1954-
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