Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

It is well known that children's activities are full of pretending and imagination, but it is less appreciated that animals can also show similar activities. Originally published in 2002, this book focuses on comparing and contrasting children's and animals' pretenses and imaginative activities. In the text, overviews of research present conflicting interpretations of children's understanding of the psychology of pretense, and describe sociocultural factors which influence children's pretenses. Studies of nonhuman primates provide examples of their pretenses and other simulative activities, explore their representational and imaginative capacities and compare their skills with children. Although the psychological requirements for pretending are controversial, evidence presented in this volume suggests that great apes and even monkeys may share capacities for imagination with children, and that children's early pretenses may be less psychological than they appear.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060311
• Artikelnr.: 38199964

Autorenporträt

ROBERT W. MITCHELL is Professor of Psychology at the Eastern Kentucky University. He is currently interested in exploring the significance of kinesthetic-visual matching in human and animal behavior, experience and self-understanding, and is writing a history of scientific attitudes toward using anthropomorphism to understand animals. Professor Mitchell''s previous books include Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans (1994, ISBN 0521441080), edited with S. T. Parker and M. L. Boccia, and The Mentalities of Gorillas and Orangutans (1999, ISBN  0521580277), edited with S. T. Parker and H. L. Miles.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Sue Taylor Parker; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I.
Historical, Developmental and Comparative Overviews: 1. Imaginative
animals, pretending children Robert W. Mitchell; 2. A history of pretense
in animals and children Robert W. Mitchell; 3. Pretending as
representation: a developmental and comparative view Lorraine McCune and
Joanne Agayoff; Part II. Pretense and Imagination in Children: 4. Language
in pretense in the second year: what it can tell us about 'pretending' in
pretense and the 'know-how' about the mind Edy Veneziano; 5. A longitudinal
and cross-sectional study of the emergence of the symbolic function in
children between 15 and 19 months of age: pretend play, object permanence
understanding and self-recognition Pierre-Marie Baudonnière, Sylvie
Margules, Soumeya Belkhenchir, Gwénnaelle Carn, Florence Pèpe and Véronique
Warkentin; 6. Caregiver-child social pretend play: what transpires? Robert
D. Kavanaugh; 7. Just through the looking-glass: children's understanding
of pretense Angeline Lillard; 8. Young children's understanding of pretense
and other fictional mental states Jacqueline D. Woolley; 9. Pretend play,
metarepresentation and theory of mind Peter K. Smith; 10. Replica toys,
stories and a functional theory of mind Greta G. Fein, Lynn D. Darling and
Lois A. Groth; 11. Young children's animal-role pretend play Olin Eugene
Myers Jr.; 12. Imaginary companions and elaborate fantasy in childhood:
discontinuity with nonhuman animals Marjorie Taylor and Stephanie M.
Carlson; Part III. Pretense and Imagination in Primates: 13. Pretending in
monkeys Anne Zeller; 14. Pretending primates: play and simulation in the
evolution of primate societies Peter C. Reynolds; 15. Representational
capacities for pretense with scale models and photographs in chimpanzees
(Pan troglodytes) Sarah T. Boysen and Valerie A. Kuhlmeier; 16. Pretending
in free-ranging rehabilitant orangutans Anne E. Russon; 17. Seeing with the
mind's eye: eye-covering play in orangutans and Japanese macaques Anne E.
Russon, Paul L. Vasey and Carole Gauthier; 18. Possible precursors of
pretend play in nonpretend actions of captive gorillas (Gorilla gorilla)
Juan Carlos Gómez and Beatriz Martín-Andrade; 19. Pretending culture:
social and cognitive features of pretense in apes and humans Warren P.
Roberts and Mark A. Krause; 20. Empathy in a bonobo Ellen J. Ingmanson; 21.
Pretend play in a signalling gorilla Marilyn L. Matevia, Francine G. P.
Patterson and William A. Hillix; Part IV. Prospects: 22. Exploring pretense
in animals and children Robert W. Mitchell; References; Index.