Trusting What You're Told : : How Children Learn from Others /

Trusting What You're Told : : How Children Learn from Others / / Paul L. Harris.

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If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, as conventional wisdom holds, how would a child discover that the earth is round-never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Overturning both cognitive and commonplace th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Harris, Paul L.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (266 p.) :; 3 halftones, 3 line illustrations, 19 graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Early Learning from Testimony
  • CHAPTER 2. Children's Questions
  • CHAPTER 3. Learning from a Demonstration
  • CHAPTER 4. Moroccan Birds and Twisted Tubes
  • CHAPTER 5. Trusting Those You Know?
  • CHAPTER 6. Consensus and Dissent
  • CHAPTER 7. Moral Judgment and Testimony
  • CHAPTER 8. Knowing What Is Real
  • CHAPTER 9. Death and the Afterlife
  • CHAPTER 10. Magic and Miracles
  • CHAPTER 11. Going Native
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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