Infants' Sense of People
Subtitle: Precursors to a Theory of Mind
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 26, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780521521697
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Psychology; Developmental - Child; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Philosophy of mind in children; Human information processing in children; Social perception in children
First sentence: In a recent chapter, Meltzoff and Brooks (2001) introduced the magical Canadian ice hockey player Wayne Gretzky as the prototype or exemplary human mind reader because he is able to predict accurately where the puck will end up and hence he is already skating toward it before the puck is shot.