9.85 Infant and Early Childhood Cognition, Fall 2005
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Schulz, Laura
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Infant and Early Childhood Cognition
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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.
Date issued
2005-12Other identifiers
9.85-Fall2005
local: 9.85
local: IMSCP-MD5-276e604cd47c97aa030cd04595443eff
Keywords
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