Early Category and Concept Development
Subtitle: Making Sense of the Blooming, Buzzing Confusion (Psychology)
Contributors: David H. Rakison (Editor); Lisa M. Oakes (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780195142938
First sentence: William James once described infants' earliest perceptions of the world as a "blooming, buzzing, confusion," speculating that infants perceive the visual world as an unrelated, disorganized series of images rather than, as is the case for adults, a structured world composed of discrete objects and events.