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Unstable Ideas

Temperament, Cognition, and Self

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$38.00 • £33.95 • €34.95

ISBN 9780674930391

Publication Date: 01/01/1992

* Academic Trade

328 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 line illustrations

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  • Introduction
  • I. On Meaning
    • 1. Meaning and Procedure
    • 2. Twentieth-Century Trends in Developmental Psychology
  • II. Temperament
    • 3. The Idea of Temperamental Types
    • 4. Inhibited and Uninhibited Children
  • III. Cognition
    • 5. On Cognitive Development
    • 6. Creativity in Science
  • IV. Self
    • 7. The Emergence of Self-Awareness
    • 8. Measuring the Concept of Self
    • 9. Self-Consciousness: A Dialogue without Answers
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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