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Conventionality in Cognitive Development: How Children Acquire Shared Representations in Language, Thought, and Action

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 115

Charles W Kalish editor Mark A Sabbagh editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:22nd Mar '07

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An important part of cognitive development is coming to think in culturally normative ways. Children learn the right names for objects, proper functions for tools, appropriate ways to categorize, and the rules for games. In each of these cases, what makes a given practice normative is not naturally given. There is not necessarily any objectively better or worse way to do any of these things. Instead, what makes them correct is that people agree on how they should be done, and each of these practices therefore has an important conventional basis. The chapters in this volume highlight the fact that successful participation in practices of language, cognition, and play depends on children's ability to acquire representations that other members of their social worlds share. Each of these domains poses problems of identifying normative standards and achieving coordination across agents. This volume brings together scholars from diverse areas in cognitive development to consider the psychological mechanisms supporting the use and acquisition of conventional knowledge. This is the 115th volume of the quarterly report series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

ISBN: 9780787996970

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 7mm

Weight: 160g

112 pages