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A toddler's life : becoming a person / Marilyn Shatz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994Description: xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195084179
  • 9780195084177
  • 0195099230
  • 9780195099232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.423 20
LOC classification:
  • BF721 .S485 1994
Contents:
Cast of Characters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 15-16 Months Doing a Lot with a Little -- 3. 17-18 Months Just One of the Family -- 4. 19-20 Months Emerging Skills -- 5. 21-22 Months Self-Concept and Object Concepts -- 6. 23-24 Months Consequences of Self-Awareness -- 7. 25-26 Months Two-Year-Old Talk -- 8. 27-28 Months Talking About People and Talk -- 9. 29-30 Months Gaining Control over a Complex World -- 10. 31-32 Months Preparing for Second-Order Thinking -- 11. 33-34 Months The Emergent Preschooler -- 12. 35-36 Months Preschooler Paradoxes -- 13. The Path from Infancy to Childhood -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.
Summary: What sets humans apart from other social animals? In an intimate account of a child's development from age one to three, distinguished psychologist Marilyn Shatz answers this question by arguing that humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves, to compare themselves to others, and to self-correct. Language plays a central role in such processes because it offers the developing child a powerful tool for going beyond immediate experience to an understanding of unobservable states and motivations. In addition to her two decades of research in developmental psychology, Shatz draws on observations of her grandson Ricky to show how toddlers use their cognitive, social, and linguistic skills to understand and eventually to employ language as a means for successfully engaging others. Shatz expertly brings the dialogue of the toddler to life, plotting the turning points in Ricky's progress from fifteen-month-old one-word speaker to three-year-old articulate preschooler. The story of a child's increasingly sophisticated involvement with an expanding world is here generalized to other young children and skillfully interwoven with both empirical research and insightful commentary about the nature of human' learning in a social setting. Parents, teachers, researchers, and students of developmental psychology and psycholinguistics will find this book to be an interesting and engaging study of early developmental processes.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-216) and index.

Cast of Characters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. 15-16 Months Doing a Lot with a Little -- 3. 17-18 Months Just One of the Family -- 4. 19-20 Months Emerging Skills -- 5. 21-22 Months Self-Concept and Object Concepts -- 6. 23-24 Months Consequences of Self-Awareness -- 7. 25-26 Months Two-Year-Old Talk -- 8. 27-28 Months Talking About People and Talk -- 9. 29-30 Months Gaining Control over a Complex World -- 10. 31-32 Months Preparing for Second-Order Thinking -- 11. 33-34 Months The Emergent Preschooler -- 12. 35-36 Months Preschooler Paradoxes -- 13. The Path from Infancy to Childhood -- Epilogue -- References -- Index.

What sets humans apart from other social animals? In an intimate account of a child's development from age one to three, distinguished psychologist Marilyn Shatz answers this question by arguing that humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves, to compare themselves to others, and to self-correct. Language plays a central role in such processes because it offers the developing child a powerful tool for going beyond immediate experience to an understanding of unobservable states and motivations. In addition to her two decades of research in developmental psychology, Shatz draws on observations of her grandson Ricky to show how toddlers use their cognitive, social, and linguistic skills to understand and eventually to employ language as a means for successfully engaging others. Shatz expertly brings the dialogue of the toddler to life, plotting the turning points in Ricky's progress from fifteen-month-old one-word speaker to three-year-old articulate preschooler. The story of a child's increasingly sophisticated involvement with an expanding world is here generalized to other young children and skillfully interwoven with both empirical research and insightful commentary about the nature of human' learning in a social setting. Parents, teachers, researchers, and students of developmental psychology and psycholinguistics will find this book to be an interesting and engaging study of early developmental processes.

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