Knowing Children

by Michael Siegal

Book Overview

It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, there are profound conceptual limitations in that they have little understanding of numerical and causal relations and are incapable of insight into the minds of others. Their apparent inability to perform well on traditional developmental measures has led researchers to accept a model of the young child...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863777678
• ISBN13: 9780863777677
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"