The essential child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought/
Susan A. Gelman
The essential child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought/ Susan A. Gelman - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. - x, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Oxford series in cognitive development) .
Introduction to Part I: Notes on research methods --
The inductive potential of categories --
Hidden, nonobvious properties --
Children's conceptions of nature and nurture --
Causal explanations, causal determinism --
Conclusions to Part I --
What parents say --
and do not say --
about essences --
Essentialism in language --
Theory theories and DAM theories --
Unfinished business --
Why do we essentialize?
0195154061
Children--Language
Cognition in children
Categorization (Psychology) in children
155.41323 / SUS/E
The essential child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought/ Susan A. Gelman - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. - x, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - (Oxford series in cognitive development) .
Introduction to Part I: Notes on research methods --
The inductive potential of categories --
Hidden, nonobvious properties --
Children's conceptions of nature and nurture --
Causal explanations, causal determinism --
Conclusions to Part I --
What parents say --
and do not say --
about essences --
Essentialism in language --
Theory theories and DAM theories --
Unfinished business --
Why do we essentialize?
0195154061
Children--Language
Cognition in children
Categorization (Psychology) in children
155.41323 / SUS/E