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The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind

by Alison Gopnik

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This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct.It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children — as well as adults — use some of the same methods that allow scientists tolearn so much about the world.Filled with surprise at every turn, this vivid, lucid, and often funny book gives us a new view of the inner life of children and the mysteries of the mind.

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"Fascinating...It isn't until you read The Scientist in the Crib alongside more conventional child-development books that you begin to appreciate the full implications of its argument." (--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker)

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"[An] excellent book...it should be of interest to anyone curious about the human mind and its origins." (--The Chicago Tribune)

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"This book is a valuable addition to parents' libraries...After reading it, parents can be enthralled as they watch their new babies imitate and learn the 'rules' of communication and speech learning. What an interesting book by three eminent 'baby watchers!'(--T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Harvard Medical School)

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Alison Gopnik, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading cognitive scientist.She is past president of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and is the author of more than seventy papers on philosophy, psychology, and children's early learning.She has also written for The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement.Mother of three, she lives with her family in Berkeley, California.

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ISBN:
9780688177881
Subtitle:
What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind
Author:
Gopnik, Alison
Author:
Kuhl, Patricia K.
Author:
Gopnik, Alison M.
Author:
by Alison Gopnik and Andrew N Meltzoff
Author:
Meltzoff, Andrew N.
Publisher:
Harper Paperbacks
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Developmental Psychology
Subject:
Child Psychology
Subject:
Cognition
Subject:
Learning, psychology of
Subject:
Cognition in children
Subject:
Developmental - Child
Subject:
Developmental - General
Subject:
Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent
Subject:
Child Development
Edition Number:
1st Perennial ed.
Edition Description:
Perennial
Series Volume:
00-13.
Publication Date:
January 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.01x5.18x.71 in. .52 lbs.

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