Volume 43: Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development, 1st Edition

Key Features

Chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.
Rational Constructivism discussed in detail

Description

Volume 43 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Rational Constructivism. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development, 1st Edition

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   1. The Probable and the Possible at 12 Months: Intuitive Reasoning about the Uncertain Future

   Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Erno Téglás and Luca L. Bonatti

   2. Probabilistic Inference in Human Infants

   Stephanie Denison and Fei Xu

   3. Reasoning about Instrumental and Communicative Agency in Human Infancy

   György Gergely and Pierre Jacob

   4. Can Rational Models be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales

   Colin Reimer Dawson and LouAnn Gerken

   5. Learning About Causes from People, and about People as Causes: Probabilistic Models and Social Causal Reasoning

   Daphna Buchsbaum, Elizabeth Seiver, Sophie Bridgers and Alison Gopnik

   6. Rational Randomness: The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler’s Causal Learning

   E, Bonawitz, A. Gopnik, S. Denison, and T. L. Griffiths

   7. Developing a concept of choice

   Tamar Kushnir

   8. Irrational Inferences? When Children Ignore Evidence in Category-Based Induction

   Marjorie Rhodes

   9. A Number of Options: Rationalist, Constructivist and Bayesian Insights into the Development of Exact-Number Concepts

   Barbara W. Sarnecka and James Negen

   10. Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts

   Laura Schulz

   11. Unifying Pedagogical Reasoning and Epistemic Trust

   Baxter S. Eaves Jr. and Patrick Shafto

   12. The Influence of Social Information on Children’s Statistical and Causal Inferences

   David M. Sobel and Natasha Z. Kirkham

   13. The Nature of Goal-Directed Action Representations in Infancy

   Jessica A. Sommerville, Michaela B. Upshaw and Jeff Loucks