How Children Invented Humanity
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How Children Invented Humanity
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Author : David F. Bjorklund
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-30
How Children Invented Humanity written by David F. Bjorklund and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Psychology categories.
Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully than on adults, and changes over the course of development in our ancestors were primarily responsible for the species and the people we have become. This book takes an evolutionary developmental perspective, emphasizing that developmental plasticity--the ability to change our physical and psychological selves early in life--is the creative force in evolution, with natural selection serving as a filter, eliminating novel developmental outcomes that did not benefit survival. This book is about becoming--of becoming human and of becoming mature adults. Bjorklund asks, "How can an understanding of human development help us better understand human evolution?" Then, turning the relation between evolution and development on its head, Bjorklund demonstrates how an understanding of our species' evolution can help us better understand current development and how to better rear successful and emotionally healthy children.
How Children Invented Humanity
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Author : David F. Bjorklund
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-30
How Children Invented Humanity written by David F. Bjorklund and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Psychology categories.
Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully than on adults, and changes over the course of development in our ancestors were primarily responsible for the species and the people we have become. This book takes an evolutionary developmental perspective, emphasizing that developmental plasticity--the ability to change our physical and psychological selves early in life--is the creative force in evolution, with natural selection serving as a filter, eliminating novel developmental outcomes that did not benefit survival. This book is about becoming--of becoming human and of becoming mature adults. Bjorklund asks, "How can an understanding of human development help us better understand human evolution?" Then, turning the relation between evolution and development on its head, Bjorklund demonstrates how an understanding of our species' evolution can help us better understand current development and how to better rear successful and emotionally healthy children.
Children S Thinking
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Author : David F. Bjorklund
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 2022-08-08
Children S Thinking written by David F. Bjorklund and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-08 with Psychology categories.
Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by David Bjorklund remains the most comprehensive and current topical textbook available in cognitive development. The text presents up-to-date, thorough research studies and data throughout. Bjorklund expertly introduce readers to the concept of developmental function, which explains that healthy children can individually vary in their cognition as they develop. This concept is discussed throughout the text within the context of the typical progression of cognitive development through infancy and childhood. In addition, the text includes framework showing that, although some traits are established at birth, children’s cognitive development is also shaped by the physical and social environments that surround them throughout their formative years. The seventh edition has been updated to include current and extensive research, sociocultural coverage, evolutionary coverage of memory development, children’s development of prosocial cognition, moral development, and the concept of overimitation.
Children S Thinking International Student Edition
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Author : David F. Bjorklund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-11-14
Children S Thinking International Student Edition written by David F. Bjorklund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-14 with categories.
Children′s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by David Bjorklund presents current, thorough research studies and data to show the effects of biology, and both physical and social environments on children′s cognitive development.
The Descent Of The Child
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Author : Elaine Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Descent Of The Child written by Elaine Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Anthropology categories.
Descartes Baby
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Author : Paul Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-08
Descartes Baby written by Paul Bloom and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-08 with Psychology categories.
Why is a forgery worth so much less than an original work of art?What's so funny about someone slipping on a banana peel? Why, as Freud once asked, is a man willing to kiss a woman passionately, but not use her toothbrush? And how many times should you baptize a two-headed twin? Descartes' Baby answers such questions, questions we may have never thought to ask about such uniquely human traits as art, humour, faith, disgust, and morality. In this thought-provoking and fascinating account of human nature, psychologist Paul Bloom contends that we all see the world in terms of bodies and souls. Even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles of physics, and they're startled when things disappear or defy gravity. They can read the emotions of adults and respond with their own feelings of anger, sympathy and joy. This perspective remains with us throughout our lives. Using his own researches and new ideas from philosophy, evolutionary biology, aesthetics, theology, and neuroscience, Bloom shows how this way to making sense of reality can explain what makes us human. The myriad ways that our childhood views of the world undergo development throughout our lives and profoundly influences our thoughts, feelings, and actions is the subject of this richly rewarding book.
Children And Nature
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Author : Peter H. Kahn, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002-05-03
Children And Nature written by Peter H. Kahn, Jr. and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-03 with Science categories.
For much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. Indeed, the experience of nature was, and still may be, a critical component of human physical, emotional, intellectual, and even moral development. Yet scientific knowledge of the significance of nature during the different stages of childhood is sparse. This book provides scientific investigations and thought-provoking essays on children and nature. Children and Nature incorporates research from cognitive science, developmental psychology, ecology, education, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, political science, primatology, psychiatry, and social psychology. The authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world; how contact with nature affects children's physical and mental development; and the educational and political consequences of the weakened childhood experience of nature in modern society.
The Eternal Child
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Author : Clive Bromhall
language : en
Publisher: Ebury Press
Release Date : 2004
The Eternal Child written by Clive Bromhall and has been published by Ebury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Human behavior categories.
Presents the story of an evolutionary process which has shaped the human species. This book states that this process, known as 'neoteny', has been massively underestimated by scientists. It explains mysteries such as why some of us are homosexual, the differences between races, the need for religion and the dynamic of male/female relationships.
Children Of Prometheus
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Author : Christopher Wills
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Children Of Prometheus written by Christopher Wills and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fossil hominids categories.
Are we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool, Wills argues that natural selection will take us into uncharted territory, revealing a future rich with the promise of increased cultural and genetic diversity.
Cognitive Gadgets
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Author : Cecilia Heyes
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-16
Cognitive Gadgets written by Cecilia Heyes and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-16 with Psychology categories.
How did human minds become so different from those of other animals? What accounts for our capacity to understand the way the physical world works, to think ourselves into the minds of others, to gossip, read, tell stories about the past, and imagine the future? These questions are not new: they have been debated by philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, evolutionists, and neurobiologists over the course of centuries. One explanation widely accepted today is that humans have special cognitive instincts. Unlike other living animal species, we are born with complicated mechanisms for reasoning about causation, reading the minds of others, copying behaviors, and using language. Cecilia Heyes agrees that adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment. In her framing, however, these cognitive gadgets are not instincts programmed in the genes but are constructed in the course of childhood through social interaction. Cognitive gadgets are products of cultural evolution, rather than genetic evolution. At birth, the minds of human babies are only subtly different from the minds of newborn chimpanzees. We are friendlier, our attention is drawn to different things, and we have a capacity to learn and remember that outstrips the abilities of newborn chimpanzees. Yet when these subtle differences are exposed to culture-soaked human environments, they have enormous effects. They enable us to upload distinctively human ways of thinking from the social world around us. As Cognitive Gadgets makes clear, from birth our malleable human minds can learn through culture not only what to think but how to think it.