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Oct 7, 2009 · She was also one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind”, an originator of the “theory theory” of children’s development, and more recently, introduced the idea that probabilistic models and Bayesian inference could be applied to children’s learning.
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Gopnik is an authority on the philosophy of mind and a preeminent developmental psychologist. Gopnik is known for advocating the "theory theory" which postulates that the same mechanisms used by scientists to develop scientific theories are used by children to develop causal models of their environment. [12]
Alison Gopnik is professor of psycholo-gy and affiliate professor of philosophy at the university of California, Berkeley. she has done groundbreaking research into how children develop a “theory of mind,” the ability to understand that other peo-ple have minds and may believe or want different things than they do. she helped to formulate the “t...
The role of imitation in understanding persons and developing a theory of mind. AN Meltzoff Understanding other minds: perspectives from autism., 335-366 , 1993
Jul 27, 2023 · Alison Gopnik, a University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor whose research has transformed our understanding of how children learn and what they can teach us about ourselves, is this year’s winner of the prestigious David Rumelhart Prize in Cognitive Science.
Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory. ALISON GOPNIK, HENRY M. WELLMAN. First published: March 1992. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.1992.tb00202.x. Citations: 589. A. G. was supported by NSF grant BNS-8919916 during the preparation of this paper. H.
