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The essence of cognitive development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2001

John P. Spencer
John P. Spencer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 [email protected] www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/spencer/spencer.html
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Abstract

Psychologists have long debated the underlying cause of infants' perseverative reaching. Thelen et al. explain the error in terms of general processes that make goal-directed actions to remembered locations. The context- and experience-dependent nature of their model implies that there is no single cause of the A-not-B error, and, more generally, no core essence to cognitive development.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 62 - 63
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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