05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

Update: 2014-03-21

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This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children and the way they learn about the world in order to formulate his theories of cognitive development. This is followed by an introduction to the modern science of infant cognition. Finally, the question of the relationship between and the existence of different kinds of development is addressed.

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19 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II

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18 - What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I

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17 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II; Some Mysteries: Sleep, Dreams, and Laughter

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16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I

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15 - A Person in the World of People: Morality

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14 - What Motivates Us: Sex

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13 - Why Are People Different?: Differences

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12 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II

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11 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I

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10 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality

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09 - Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love

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08 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Vision and Memory (cont.)

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07 - Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language (cont.); Vision and Memory

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06 - How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth and the Hands

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

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04 - Foundations: Skinner

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03 - Foundations: Freud

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02 - Foundations: This is Your Brain

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01 - Introduction

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

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05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought

Paul Bloom

05 - What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought