The Development of Knowledge of Animates and Inanimates in Infancy
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Previous theories have tended to focus on a single mechanism to explain the development of knowledge of animates and inanimates infancy, although for some theorists this mechanism is domain-specific and for others it is domain-general. In contrast to these well-documented positions, in this chapter the authors claim that infants’ understanding of animacy reflects many developmental changes that occur at many levels, reflect many mechanisms—some that are domain-specific and some that are domain-general—and reflect structural, environmental, and learned constraints on that development. Examples of such developmental cascades are provided with a focus on infants’ developing knowledge of goal-directed action.
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