Rational Constructivism in Cognitive Development

Volume 43 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of Rational Constructivism. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

1. 1. The Probable and the Possible at 12 Months: Intuitive Reasoning about the Uncertain Future
   2. Probabilistic Inference in Human Infants
   3. Reasoning about Instrumental and Communicative Agency in Human Infancy
   4. Can Rational Models be Good Accounts of Developmental Change? The Case of Language Development at Two Time Scales
   5. Learning About Causes from People, and about People as Causes: Probabilistic Models and Social Causal Reasoning
   6. Rational Randomness: The Role of Sampling in an Algorithmic Account of Preschooler’s Causal Learning
   7. Developing a concept of choice
   8. Irrational Inferences? When Children Ignore Evidence in Category-Based Induction
   9. A Number of Options: Rationalist, Constructivist and Bayesian Insights into the Development of Exact-Number Concepts
   10. Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts
   11. Unifying Pedagogical Reasoning and Epistemic Trust
   12. The Influence of Social Information on Children’s Statistical and Causal Inferences
   13. The Nature of Goal-Directed Action Representations in Infancy

• Chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area
• Rational Constructivism discussed in detail