• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The essential child : origins of essentialism in everyday thought
  • Contributor: Gelman, Susan A. [VerfasserIn]
  • imprint: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Published in: Oxford cognitive development
  • Extent: 1 online resource (x, 382 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154061.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199786718; 0199786712
  • Identifier:
  • RVK notation: CC 4800 : Abhandlungen zur Sprachphilosophie
    CQ 2000 : Entwicklung kognitiver und sensorischer Funktionen
  • Keywords: Essentialismus > Psychologie
    Kind > Kognitive Entwicklung
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: This text synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. It shows that children do not come into the world as passive recipients of data.