Development Of The Child - A Cross - Culture Approach To Cognition

Discusses some of the characteristics of infants including smiling, stranger anxiety and attachment. Illustrates the growth of play, especially the capacity for symbolic play, which is viewed as one basis for the appearance of metaphor, gender being an example. Includes a look at cognitive development, focusing on the perceptual analysis of visual scenes, perceptual inference, memory for objects and loca tions growth of reflectivity and the appearance of concrete operational thinking.

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