9.85 Infant and Early Childhood Cognition, Fall 2005
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Author(s)
Schulz, Laura
Alternative Title
Infant and Early Childhood Cognition
Date Issued
December 2005
Abstract
This course is an introduction to cognitive development focusing on children's understanding of objects, agents, and causality. Students develop a critical understanding of experimental design and how developmental research might address philosophical questions about the origins of knowledge, appearance and reality, and the problem of other minds.
Subjects
infant cognition
early childhood cognition
cognitive development
developmental psychology
psychology
developmental research
Piaget
object knowledge
object individuation
object concept
agents
causal knowledge
theory of mind
causation
causal transformations
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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