TY - BOOK ID - 9311746 TI - The essential child: origins of essentialism in everyday thought PY - 2003 SN - 9780195181982 0195181980 0195154061 9780195154061 1280704225 9786610704224 0198035055 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Categorization (Psychology) in children. KW - Cognition in children. KW - Children KW - Kognitiv utveckling hos barn. KW - Kind. KW - Kognition. KW - Language. KW - Children -- Language. KW - Categorization (Psychology) in children KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Catégorisation (psychologie) chez l'enfant KW - Cognition chez l'enfant KW - Enfants KW - Langage UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9311746 AB - This text synthesizes 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, examining children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. It shows that children do not come into the world as passive recipients of data. ER -