Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category)
2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in …

The present experiment examined whether 4.5-month-old expect an object to fall when its
support is removed. The infants saw two test events: a possible and an impossible event. In …

Nearly every human society has reserved a special place for those denizens claiming the
ability to predict the fu-ture. Prophets, astrologers, shamans, witch doctors, and scientists are …

Because many of the most interesting disputes in cognitive development today involve
infancy, I have centered this chapter on representational issues during the first two years …

I would like to thank my contributors for making my editorial duties in preparing this volume
so enjoyable. The outstanding quality of their contributions and of their writing made the …

The notion of a sensorimotor stage in infancy is called into question. First, some of the recent
experimental literature on cognitive development in infancy is examined to determine the …

All theories of cognitive development make assumptions about constraints on learning, even
those which commonly are seen as nonconstraint theories. We do not ask whether a …

Many important questions about children's early abilities and learning mechanisms remain
unanswered not because of their inherent scientific difficulty but because of practical …

This paper considers possible problems researchers might face when interpreting the
results of studies that employ variants of the preference procedure. Infants show a tendency …

The present study investigated the development of possibility‐judgment strategies between
the ages of 4 and 8. In Experiment 1, 48 children and 16 adults were asked whether a …