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Learning and the Infant Mind by Amanda Woodward and Amy Needham is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Learning and the Infant Mind about?
When asking how cognition comes to take its mature form, learning seems to be an obvious factor to consider. However, until quite recently, there has been very little contact between investigations of how infants learn and what infants know. For example, on the one hand, research efforts focused on infants' foundational conceptual knowledge-what they know about the physical permanence of objects, causal relations, and human intentions-often do not consider how learning may contribute to the structure of this knowledge. On the other hand, research efforts focused on infants' perceptual and motor learning-how they extract information from the environment, tune their behavior patterns according to this information, and generalize learning to new situations-often do not consider the potential impacts of these perceptual and learning mechanisms the structure of conceptual knowledge. Although each of these research efforts has made significant progress, this research has done little to narrow the divide between the disparate traditions of learning and knowledge. The chapters in this book document, for the first time, the insights that emerge when researchers who come from diverse domains
Who reads Learning and the Infant Mind?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amanda Woodward and Amy Needham
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190293819
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Education, Social Science
