Developing Theories of Intention: Social Understanding and Self-control

by Zelazo; Philip David

• ISBN13: 9780805831412
• ISBN10: 080583141X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate that intentionality is a key issue in the cognitive and social sciences. Moreover, in a way that was anticipated more than a century ago by the seminal work of J. Mark Baldwin, they are beginning to reveal how the control of action is related in development to children's emerging self-conscious and their increasingly sophisticated appreciation of other people's perspectives. This volume brings together the world's leading researchers on early social and cognitive development in an in-depth exploration of children's understanding of themselves and others.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1 Introduction: Actions, Intentions, and Attributions	1	(14)
David R. Olson
Janet Wilde Astington
Philip David Zelazo
PART I DEVELOPMENT OF INTENTION AND INTENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD	15	(152)
2 Toddlers' Understanding of Intentions, Desires and Emotions: Explorations of the Dark Ages	17	(26)
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Alison Gopnik
Betty M. Repacholi
3 Intentional Relations and Triadic Interactions	43	(20)
Chris Moore
4 Having Intentions, Understanding Intentions, and Understanding Communicative Intentions	63	(14)
Michael Tomasello
5 Intentions, Consciousness, and Pretend Play	77	(18)
Michael Lewis
Douglas Ramsay
6 Language, Levels of Consciousness, and The Development of Intentional Action	95	(24)
Philip David Zelazo
7 Development of Intention: The Relation of Executive Function to Theory of Mind	119	(14)
Douglas Frye
8 Executive Functions and Theory of Mind: Cognitive Complexity or Functional Dependence?	133	(20)
Josef Perner
Sandra Stummer
Birgit Lang
9 The Theory of Ascriptions	153	(14)
David R. Olson
Deepthi Kamawar
PART II COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON INTENTIONALITY	167	(60)
10 Primate Representations and Expectations: Mental Tools for Navigating in a Social World	169	(26)
Marc D. Hauser
11 Social Understanding in Chimpanzees: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Approach	195	(32)
Daniel J. Povinelli
PART III THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT OF INTENTIONALITY	227	(66)
12 Making Sense of the Social World: Mindreading, Emotion, and Relationships	229	(14)
Judy Dunn
13 Influences on Maternal Attribution of Infant Intentionality	243	(26)
J. Steven Reznick
14 Intention and Emotion in Child Psychopathology: Building Cooperative Plans	269	(24)
Jenny Jenkins
Rachel Greenbaum
PART IV INTENTIONALITY AND LANGUAGE	293	(48)
15 The Language of Intention: Three Ways of Doing It	295	(22)
Janet Wilde Astington
16 Intentionality and Interpretation	317	(12)
Carol Fleisher Feldman
17 The Intentionality of Referring	329	(12)
Jerome Bruner
Author Index	341	(10)
Subject Index	351	(6)
Contributors	357