Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

Content: 
Contributors to This Volume
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages ix-x

Preface
Pages xi-xiv
Fei Xu, Tamar Kushnir

Chapter One - The Probable and the Possible at 12 Months: Intuitive Reasoning about the Uncertain Future
Pages 1-25
Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti, Erno Téglás, Luca L. Bonatti

Chapter Two - Probabilistic Inference in Human Infants
Pages 27-58
Stephanie Denison, Fei Xu

Chapter Three - Reasoning about Instrumental and Communicative Agency in Human Infancy
Pages 59-94
György Gergely, Pierre Jacob

Chapter Four - Can Rational Models Be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales
Pages 95-124
Colin R. Dawson, LouAnn Gerken

Chapter Five - Learning about Causes from People and about People as Causes: Probabilistic Models and Social Causal Reasoning
Pages 125-160
Daphna Buchsbaum, Elizabeth Seiver, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik

Chapter Six - Rational Randomness: The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler’s Causal Learning
Pages 161-191
E. Bonawitz, A. Gopnik, S. Denison, T.L. Griffiths

Chapter Seven - Developing a Concept of Choice
Pages 193-218
Tamar Kushnir

Chapter Eight - When Children Ignore Evidence in Category-Based Induction: Irrational Inferences?
Pages 219-235
Marjorie Rhodes

Chapter Nine - A Number of Options: Rationalist, Constructivist, and Bayesian Insights into the Development of Exact-Number Concepts
Pages 237-268
Barbara W. Sarnecka, James Negen

Chapter Ten - Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts
Pages 269-294
Laura Schulz

Chapter Eleven - Unifying Pedagogical Reasoning and Epistemic Trust
Pages 295-319
Baxter S. Eaves Jr., Patrick Shafto

Chapter Twelve - The Influence of Social Information on Children\'s Statistical and Causal Inferences
Pages 321-350
David M. Sobel, Natasha Z. Kirkham

Chapter Thirteen - The Nature of Goal-Directed Action Representations in Infancy
Pages 351-387
Jessica A. Sommerville, Michaela B. Upshaw, Jeff Loucks

Subject Index
Pages 389-397

Author Index
Pages 399-411

Contents of Previous Volumes
Pages 413-428