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Douglas Keith Candland
e druk, 1996
9780195102840
Feral Children and Clever Animals
Reflections on Human Nature
Specificaties
Paperback, 432 blz.
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Engels
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e druk, 1996
ISBN13: 9780195102840
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 10 werkdagen
Samenvatting
What is it that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom? What makes us unique? What makes us human?
In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans `think', we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature.
Among the fascinating accounts of feral children and clever animals from which the book draws its arguments are the Wolf Girls of India, Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Kaspar Hauser, and `Clever Hans', the German horse that could calculate square roots.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780195102840
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:432
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal, Mens en maatschappij
Inhoudsopgave
What Feral Children Tell Us: Nature and Nurture: Children without Human Parenting; Kaspar Hauser and the Wolf-Children; Four Psychologies; Thinking about the Mind; The Psychology of Psychoanalysis; Freud and Little Hans; The Psychology of Experimentalism and Behaviourism: Clever Hans and Lady Wonder; Experimentation and Experimenter: Clever Hans's Companions; The Psychology of Perceiving: Phenomenology and Ethology; The Mental Ladder: Peter and Moses, Chimpanzees Who Write; Exploiting the Missing Link; People and Apes Communicating: Raising Human Babies with Chimps: Donald, Gua, and Viki; Human and Ape Communication: Washoe, Koko, and Nim; Language and Meaning: Sarah and Lana, Sherman and Austin, Kanzi and Ai; Principles and Myths: Feral Children and Clever Animals; Postlude; Notes; References; Illustration Credits; Text Credits; Index.