Developing Mind Series

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1. Remembering the Times of Our Lives

   Memory in Infancy and Beyond

   By Patricia J. Bauer

   Series: Developing Mind Series

   The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and later retrieve autobiographical or personal memories. It is appropriate for scholars and researchers in the fields of...

   Published August 7th 2006 by Psychology Press
2. The Development of Commonsense Psychology

   By Chris Moore

   Series: Developing Mind Series

   How do children develop an understanding of people as psychological entities - as feeling, thinking beings? How do they come to understand human behavior as driven by desires and informed by reason? These questions are at the heart of contemporary research on children’s "theories of mind." Although...

   Published February 2nd 2006 by Psychology Press
3. Recess

   Its Role in Education and Development

   By Anthony D. Pellegrini

   Series: Developing Mind Series

   Writing a book about recess could be a very questionable endeavor for a serious academic psychologist. At first blush it seems to be a pretty trivial topic. It's the time during the school day where there's a break from what's typically considered the most serious work of the day--reading, writing,...

   Published June 9th 2005 by Psychology Press
4. The Cradle of Culture and What Children Know About Writing and Numbers Before Being

   By Liliana Tolchinsky

   Series: Developing Mind Series

   This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ways in which cultural artifacts influence the mind and vice versa. Remarkably, children treat writing and numerals as distinct even before they have...

   Published December 31st 2002 by Psychology Press