Art, Culture, Neighborhood
Infants and young kids are beginning to fully grasp what goes on in people’s minds, and how others’ feelings and thoughts are equivalent to and distinctive from their own. From pretty early on, youngsters are not merely passive observers, registering the superficial appearance of things. Rather, they are creating explanatory systems—implicit theories—that organize their information. Such implicit theories include causal principles and causal relations these theories allow young children to predict, explain, and cause about relevant phenomena and, in some…