Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 18

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Academic Press, Jun 7, 1984 - Psychology - 309 pages
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
 

Contents

Chapter 2 Auditory Feedback and Speech Development
49
Chapter 3 Body Size of Infants and Children around the World in Relation to Socioeconomic Status
81
Its Cost and Benefit
147
Rational Alternatives to Kuhns Analysis of Scientific Progress
187
KuhnLakatosLaudan
191
Lakatos versus Kuhn
227
Incommensurability or Synthesis?
245
A Discussion of His Detractors
259
Chapter 10 Comments on Beilins Epistemology and Palermos Defense of Kuhn
273
Chapter 11 From Kuhn to Lakatos to Laudan
277
One Step Forward Two Steps Back
285
Author Index
293
Subject Index
305
Contents of Previous Volumes
311
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Page 4 - When a child utters phrases belonging to the first group, he does not bother to know to whom he is speaking nor whether he is being listened to. He talks either for himself or for the pleasure of associating anyone who happens to be there with the activity of the moment. This talk is ego-centric, partly because the child speaks only about himself, but chiefly because he does not attempt to place himself at the point of view of his hearer.
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