Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development, Second edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 213-238

  Opfer, John E ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Animacy and essentialist reasoning children's "essentialist" reasoning or "psychological essentialism"; Animate inanimate distinction light on basic theoretical issues in cognitive development; Animate inanimate distinction and why it is important; Animate inanimate distinction development; Animate inanimate distinction, well in place in first year of life sensitivity present immediately after birth; Cognitive development in early childhood; Developmental paths, by which knowledge becomes enriched over time; Featural aspects of object and dynamic aspects of object's motion perceptual cues indicating that a given entity is either animate or inanimate; Infants making use of featural information and dynamic information; Knowledge about animacy present in infancy four key issues in studies of animacy in infancy

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EID: 84886165842     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325485.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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