Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either
individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of …

This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of
developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The …

Our understanding of many mental, social and physical phenomena hinges on a general
understanding that appearances can differ from reality. Yet young children sometimes seem …

Children spend many of their waking hours engaged in play, and this is frequently claimed
to be crucially important to children's development (Lillard et al., 2013; Wilson, 1975) …

Pretending is among the most interesting activities of childhood. As many have noted,
pretending appears to be an early expression of the child's ability to use and understand …

Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates
philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical …

Are 15-month-old infants able to detect a violation in the consistency of an event sequence
that involves pretense? In Experiment 1, infants detected a violation when an actor …

Joint pretence games are implicit rule-governed activities with a normative structure: Given
shared fictional stipulations, some acts are appropriate moves, others are inappropriate (ie …

Multiple levels of category inclusiveness in 4 object domains (animals, vehicles, fruit, and
furniture) were examined using a sequential touching procedure and assessed in both …

The ability to engage in and recognize pretend play begins around 18 months. A major
challenge for theories of pretense is explaining how children are able to engage in pretense …