Mindvaults : sociocultural grounds for pretending and imagining / Radu J. Bogdan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bogdan, Radu J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imagination.

Imagination in children.

Social psychology.

Social perception.

Social cognitive theory.

Physical Description:

xxi, 236 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2013]

Contents:

I Questions 1

1 What Sort of Evolution? 5

1.1 Intuitive Debut 6

1.2 An Assortment of Puzzles 9

1.3 Possible Explanations 13

1.4 Evolutionary Turn to Ontogeny 16

2 What Sort of Ontogeny? 29

2.1 The Ape Connection 30

2.2 Sociocultural Activism 34

2.3 Unique Ontogeny for Unique Thoughts 38

2.4 Intuitive Psychology: The Driving Force 42

3 What Sort of Competence? 47

3.1 Identity Crises 49

3.2 The Competence Angle 56

3.3 Metamental Rehearsals 62

3.4 The Structure of the Argument 70

II Developmental Answers 73

Before Four: Playing with Culture 75

4 Early Foundations 77

4.1 Projection 78

4.2 Play 83

4.3 Naive Psychology 87

4.4 Imitation 90

4.5 Executive Readiness 92

5 Pretending 97

5.1 Cultural Challenges 99

5.2 Views about Pretending 107

5.3 The Action Angle 113

5.4 Role Impersonation in Sociocultural Action 117

5.5 Limitations 123

5.6 Contributions 127

After Four: Others and Self 137

6 Change of Mind 139

6.1 Increasingly Offline 142

6.2 A New Executive 145

6.3 Metarepresenting Others 149

6.4 Their Own Minds 158

7 Imagining 163

7.1 New Challenges: Juvenile Sociopolitics 164

7.2 Transition? Imaginary Companionship 167

7.3 Clues from Autobiographical Memory 170

7.4 Strategizing 175

7.5 Competence Transfer 187

8 Epilogue 195

8.1 Summation 195

8.2 Speculation 197

8.3 Why Evolution Matters 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-232) and index.

ISBN:

9780262019118

0262019116

OCLC:

813540895