Social Understanding and Social Lives: From Toddlerhood Through to the Transition to School

ISBN-13: 9781848724006 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 242 str.

Claire Hughes

Opis

Using information gathered from classmates, teachers and the children themselves, the author investigates links between individual differences in early social understanding and in the quality of children's interactions with friends, in their ability to resolve conflict, and in diverse aspects of school adjustment.

Spis treści

Part 1. Cognitive Perspectives on Social Understanding. 1. Milestones in Social Understanding, from Infancy to School Age. 2. Executive Function and Children's Understanding of Mind. 3. Language and Theory of Mind: A Cognitive Perspective. Part 2. Social Influences on Children's Understanding of Mind. 4. Language and Theory of Mind: A Social Perspective. 5. Parenting and Children's Social Understanding. 6. Siblings and Children's Social Understanding. Part 3. Social Understanding and Social Outcomes. 7. Social Understanding and Antisocial Behaviour. 8. Social Understanding and Positive Social Behaviours. 9. Social Understanding and School Life. 10. Emerging Themes.

O autorze

Claire Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the Centre for Family research, University of Cambridge. She is also Editor of British Journal of Developmental Psychology.