How Children Develop Social Understanding

by Carpendale, Jeremy; Lewis, Charlie

• ISBN13: 9781405105507
• ISBN10: 140510550X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book provides a critical review of research into how children come to understand the social world, an area often known as children's "theories of mind". Takes an integrated approach to the development of children's social understanding Brings out the connections between mental state understanding and children's understanding of language, social skills, morality and emotions. Sets research within a historical and theoretical context Contributes unique insights and perspectives, particularly in its discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky, and in its Wittgensteinian focus on the role of language.

Author Biography

Jeremy Carpendale is Associate Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Charlie Lewis is Professor of Family and Developmental Psychology at Lancaster University, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	viii
Preface	x
Chapter 1 Social Understanding and Social Interaction: An Introduction to the Issues	1	(27)
Chapter 2 Contemporary Theories of Social Understanding	28	(24)
Chapter 3 Understanding False Beliefs	52	(28)
Chapter 4 The Development of Social Understanding in Infancy	80	(27)
Chapter 5 Domain General Approaches to Reasoning about the Mind	107	(26)
Chapter 6 Social Interaction and the Development of Social Understanding: The Role of Relationships in Social Cognitive Development	133	(25)
Chapter 7 Language and Social Understanding	158	(25)
Chapter 8 Beyond (False) Belief: What Do Preschoolers and Older Children Still Have to Learn about the Mind?	183	(22)
Chapter 9 Social Understanding and Children's Social Lives	205	(26)
Chapter 10 Constructing an Understanding of Mind	231	(24)
References	255	(42)
Author Index	297	(10)
Subject Index	307