ABSTRACT
The chapters collected in this volume represent the "state-of-the-art" of research on the development of intentional action and intentional understanding--topics that are at the intersection of current research on imitation, early understanding of mental states, goal-directed behavior in nonhuman animals, executive function, language acquisition, and narrative understanding, to name just a few of the relevant foci. Collectively, the contributors demonstrate that intentionality is a key issue in the cognitive and social sciences. Moreover, in a way that was anticipated more than a century ago by the seminal work of J. Mark Baldwin, they are beginning to reveal how the control of action is related in development to children's emerging self-conscious and their increasingly sophisticated appreciation of other people's perspectives.
This volume brings together the world's leading researchers on early social and cognitive development in an in-depth exploration of children's understanding of themselves and others.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|152 pages
Development of Intention and Intentional Understanding in Infancy and Early Childhood
chapter Chapter 2|26 pages
Toddlers' Understanding of Intentions, Desires, and Emotions: Explorations of the Dark Ages
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
Having Intentions, Understanding Intentions, and Understanding Communicative Intentions
chapter Chapter 6|24 pages
Language, Levels of Consciousness, and the Development of Intentional Action
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Development of Intention: The Relation of Executive Function to Theory of Mind
chapter Chapter 8|20 pages
Executive Functions and Theory of Mind: Cognitive Complexity or Functional Dependence?
part II|60 pages
Comparative Perspectives on Intentionality
chapter Chapter 10|26 pages
Primate Representations and Expectations: Mental Tools for Navigating in a Social World
chapter Chapter 11|32 pages
Social Understanding in Chimpanzees: New Evidence From a Longitudinal Approach
part III|66 pages
The Sociocultural Context of Intentionality
chapter Chapter 12|14 pages
Making Sense of the Social World: Mindreading, Emotion, and Relationships
chapter Chapter 14|24 pages
Intention and Emotion in Child Psychopathology: Building Cooperative Plans
part IV|48 pages
Intentionality and Language