SA Gelman - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2004 - cell.com
Psychological essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as 'lion'or 'female', have an underlying reality that cannot be observed directly. Where does this idea come from …
E Hoff - Child development, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The hypothesis was tested that children whose families differ in socioeconomic status (SES) differ in their rates of productive vocabulary development because they have different …
Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as" dog,"" man," or" intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea …
How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …
M Rhodes, SJ Leslie… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Social essentialism entails the belief that certain social categories (eg, gender, race) mark fundamentally distinct kinds of people. Essentialist beliefs have pernicious consequences …
The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …
Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …
NC Ellis - Studies in second language acquisition, 2005 - cambridge.org
This paper considers how implicit and explicit knowledge are dissociable but cooperative. It reviews various psychological and neurobiological processes by which explicit knowledge …
NOW PUBLISHED BY PLURAL! This classic text now in its tenth edition and now available from Plural Publishing, The Development of Language continues its focus on language …