Piaget, evolution, and development /

• Other Authors: Langer, Jonas, Killen, Melanie
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
• Series: Jean Piaget Symposium series.
• Subjects: Piaget, Jean, > 1896-1980.; Piaget, Jean, > 1896-1980; Cognition.; Human information processing.; Thought and thinking.; Psychology, Comparative.; SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.; PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.; Mental Processes.; Electronic books.; Congresses.

Table of Contents:

• The comparative study of mental development / Jonas Langer, Melanie Killen
• Cognitive evolution by extending brain development : on recapitulation, progress, and other heresies / Michael L. McKinney
• Phylogenetic and ontogenetic origins of cognition : classification / Jonas Langer
• The comparative analysis of object knowledge / Fran�cois Y. Dor�e, Sonia Goulet
• Evolutionary and developmental origins of the mindreading system / Andrew Whiten
• The comparative evolution of imitation / Anne E. Russon [and others]
• Scientific schizophrenia with regard to the language act / Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
• The evolution and development of self-knowledge : adaptations for assessing the nature of self relative to that of conspecifics / Sue Taylor Parker
• Conflict resolution in human and nonhuman primates / Marina Cords, Melanie Killen
• Social cognition and the evolution of culture / Michael Tomasello
• Prehistory and cognitive development / Peter Damerow
• Notes from the underground : culture, conflict, and subversion / Elliot Turiel.