- 162 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Understanding and interpreting the actions and minds of other people is one of the most challenging tasks for infants and young children in their development. To reason about other's actions in terms of goals forms an important cornerstone in infants' action understanding. Understanding actions as goal-directed enables the interpretation, prediction and the making of further sense of other people's actions and behaviour. This ability to detect that an action is directed toward a goal has been theorised to be among the first elements present in infants' reasoning about people's behaviour, preceding an understanding of intentions and other mental states (Dennett, 1987; Premack, 1990; Wellman, 1992). However, to become a functional member of our world and achieve an adult-like understanding of others' actions and minds, infants have a long way to go.
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Table of contents
- Infant action understanding in the first year of life
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abstract
- 1General Introduction
- 2Infants’ encoding of actions as goal-directed wh
- 3Infants’ perception of goal-directed actions: Do
- 4The style of mother-infant interaction in relati
- 5General Conclusions