The Self in Time: Developmental Perspectives

by Chris Moore

Book Overview

Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool period that children first construct this form of self. By about four years of age, children can remember events from their pasts and reconstruct a personal narrative integrating these events. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805834559
• ISBN13: 9780805834550
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"