Pretending and imagination in animals and children
By: edited by Robert W. Mitchell.
Contributors: Mitchell, Robert W., 1958-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: Imagination in children; Psychology, Comparative
Notes: Gift of anonymous donor.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-352) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Imaginative animals, pretending children ;; title: A history of pretense in animals and children -- Robert W. Mitchell; title: Pretending as representation : a developmental and comparative view -- Lorraine McCune, -- Joanne Agayoff; title: Language in pretense during the second year : what it can tell us about "pretending" in pretense and the "know-how" about the mind -- Edy Veneziano; title: A longitudinal and cross-sectional study of the emergence of the symbolic function in children between 15 and 19 months of age : pretend play, object permanence understanding, and self-recognition -- Pierre-Marie Baudonnière ... -- ... [et al.]; title: Caregiver-child social pretend play : what transpires? -- Robert D. Kavanaugh; title: Just through the looking glass : children's understanding of pretense -- Angeline Lillard; title: Young children's understanding of pretense and other fictional mental states -- Jacqueline D. Woolley; title: Pretend play, metarepresentation and theory of mind -- Peter K. Smith; title: Replica toys, stories, and a functional theory of mind -- Greta G. Fein, -- Lynn D. Darling, -- Lois A. Groth; title: Young children's animal-role pretend play -- Olin Eugene Myers, Jr.; title: Imaginary companions and elaborate fantasy in childhood : discontinuity with nonhuman animals -- Marjorie Taylor, -- Stephanie M. Carlson; title: Pretending in monkeys -- Anne Zeller; title: Pretending primates : play and simulation in the evolution of primate societies -- Peter C. Reynolds; title: Representational capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) -- Sarah T. Boysen, -- Valerie A. Kuhlmeier; title: Pretending in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans -- Anne E. Russon; title: Seeing with the mind's eye : eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques -- Anne E. Russon, -- Paul L. Vasey, -- Carole Gauthier; title: Possible precursors of pretend play in nonpretend actions of captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) -- Juan Carlos Gómez, -- Beatriz Martín-Andrade; title: Pretending culture : social and cognitive features of pretense in apes and humans -- Warren P. Roberts, -- Mark A. Krause; title: Empathy in a bonobo -- Ellen J. Ingmanson; title: Pretend play in a signing gorilla -- Marilyn L. Matevia, -- Francine G.P. Paterson, -- William A. Hillix; title: Exploring pretense in animals and children-- Robert W. Mitchell.