Social cognition
Subtitle: studies of the development of understanding
By: edited by George Butterworth and Paul Light.
Contributors: Butterworth, George.; Light, Paul.; British Psychological Society. Developmental Section.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Cognition in children.; Social interaction in children.; Emotions in children.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Extended and revised papers originally presented at the annual conference of the Developmental Section of the British Psychological Society, University of Southampton, England, September 1979.
Table of contents: value: A brief account of the conflict between the individual and the social in models of cognitive growth / George Butterworth; value: What exactly is social about the origins of understanding? / David Hamlyn; value: An ecological approach to cognitive development: implicate orders, joint action, and intentionality / John Shotter and John Newson; value: Towards a social-cognitive explanation of imitation development / Donald Clementson-Mohr; value: The primary motives for cooperative understanding / Colwyn Trevarthen; value: How infants see the point / John Churcher and Michael Scaife; value: Representational development and the structure of action / Chris Sinha; value: Cognitive factors limiting shared care arrangements for young children / Peter Smith; value: The child's concept of emotion / Paul Harris and Tjeert Olthof; value: Cognitive tasks as interactional settings / Irene Nielson and Julie Dockrell; value: Peer interaction and learning: can two wrongs make a right? / Martin Glachan and Paul Light.