Mindvaults : sociocultural grounds for pretending and imagining /
An argument that the uniquely human capacities of pretending and imagining develop in response to sociocultural and sociopolitical pressures in childhood. The human mind has the capacity to vault over the realm of current perception, motivation, emotion, and action, to leap--consciously and delibera...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
2013
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1 Questions
- What sort of evolution?
- What sort of ontogeny?
- What sort of competence?
- pt. 2 Developmental answers
- Before four : playing with culture
- Early foundations
- Pretending
- After four : others and self
- Change of mind
- Imagining
- Epilogue.
