Agency and cognitive development / Michael Tomasello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tomasello, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford series in cognitive development.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford series in cognitive development

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in children.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This text argues that children cannot simply learn anything at any age, because their capacities to experience and cognitively represent the world are structured by humans' psychological architecture for agentive decision making and action. Changes in these architectures help to explain why children learn what they do when they do.

Contents:

1 Not By Learning Alone

1.1. Brief Historical Background

1.2. Agentive Organization

1.3. A Three-Part Proposal

2 Agency and Cognition

2.1. Agentive Organization and Decision-Making

2.2. Human Cognitive Ontogeny

Part I Early Infancy

3 Goal-Directed Agency and Iconic Representations

3.1. Before Agentive Actions

3.2. Early Goal-Directed Actions and Decision-Making

3.3. Interacting in the Social World

3.4. Infants as Goal-Directed Agents

Part II Toddlerhood

4 Intentional Agency and Imaginative Representations

4.1. Intentional Action and Decision-Making

4.2. Understanding Causality

4.3. Understanding Intentionality

4.4. Toddlers as Intentional Agents and Theorists

5 Joint Agency and Perspectival Representations

5.1. Collaboration and Joint Intentionality

5.2. Cooperative/Referential Communication

5.3. Linguistic Communication

5.4. Toddlers' Joint Agency and Intentionality

Part III Early Childhood

6 Metacognitive Agency and Multi-Perspectival Representations

6.1. A Hierarchical Model of Executive Regulation

6.2. Metacognitive Decision-Making

6.3. Metacognitive Learning and Re-representation

6.4. Some Multi-Perspectival Representations

6.5. Metacognitive Organization and Concepts

7 Collective Agency and Objective/Normative Representations

7.1. Collective Agency and Intentionality

7.2. "Objective" Knowledge and Concepts

7.3. Normative Attitudes and Concepts

7.4. Real and Ideal

Part IV Moving Forward

8 An Agency-Based Model of Human Cognitive Development

8.1. Two Key Transitions in Human Cognitive Development

8.2. Processes of Developmental Change

8.3. Looking Ahead

9 The Child-as-Scientist Revisited.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 8, 2024).

ISBN:

9780198896586

0198896581

9780191998294

019199829X

9780198896593

019889659X

OCLC:

1444096348