Words, Thoughts, and Theories

by Andrew N. Meltzoff and Alison Gopnik

Book Overview

Words, Thoughts, and Theories articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development, the idea that infants and young children, like scientists, learn about the world by forming and revising theories, a view of the origins of knowledge and meaning that has broad implications for cognitive science.

Gopnik and Meltzoff interweave philosophical arguments and empirical data from their own and other's research. Both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262571269
• ISBN13: 9780262571265
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher