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Constructing science :connecting causal reasoning to scientific thinking in y…
"A novel attempt to explain why teens and adults often struggle with scientific explanation even thought young children clearly possess impressive causal reasoning skills"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370611
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- 1 online resource.
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The Wordbank project :variability and consistency in children's language lear…
"A "big data" approach to understanding cross-cultural langauge learning in children"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236297X
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- 1 online resource.
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Folk psychological narratives :the sociocultural basis of understanding reasons
"A Bradford book."An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of n.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275996
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 343 pages)
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 9780262270342
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) :illustrations.
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Beyond modularity :a developmental perspective on cognitive science
"A Bradford book."Taking a stand midway between Piaget's constructivism and Fodor's nativism, Annette Karmiloff-Smith offers an exciting new theory of developmental change that embraces both approaches. She shows how each can enrich the other and how both are necessary to a fundamental theory of human cognition.Karmiloff-Smith shifts the focus from what cognitive science can offer the study of …
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- 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
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- 0585020442
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- 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) :illustrations.
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Learnability and cognition :the acquisition of argument structure
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281614
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) :illustrations.
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Journey from cognition to brain to gene :perspectives from Williams syndrome
A blueprint for the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders, this book presents the work of a team of scientists using a multidisciplinary, integrated approach to link genes with human behavior. Using Williams syndrome as a model, leading researchers in neuroanatomy, neurocognition, neurophysiology, and molecular genetics have built bridges between disciplines to link higher cognitive fun…
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- 9780262287395
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- 1 online resource (xx, 189 pages) :illustrations
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Making space :the development of spatial representation and reasoning
"A Bradford book."Spatial competence is a central aspect of human adaptation. To understand human cognitive functioning, we must understand how people code the locations of things, how they navigate in the world, and how they represent and mentally manipulate spatial information. Until recently three approaches have dominated thinking about spatial development. Followers of Piaget claim that in…
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- 9780262280594
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- 1 online resource (xii, 262 pages) :illustrations.
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Lifespan development of human memory
"A Bradford book."An original approach to memory development that views memory as a continuous process of growth and loss over the human lifespan rather than as a series of separate periods. Until recently, the vast majority of memory research used only university students and other young adults as subjects. Although such research successfully introduced new methodologies and theoretical concep…
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- 9780262274203
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- 1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) :illustrations
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Race in the making :cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human…
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- 9780262275415
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 225 pages) :illustrations.
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