Agency and Cognitive Development - Michael Tomasello

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Résumé :
Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022).


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Biographie:
and at 3-4 years preschool youngsters become metacognitive (and collective) agents who also metacognitively represent and learn about objective/normative necessities. These developing agentive architectures - originally evolved in humans' evolutionary ancestors for particular types of decision making and action - help to explain why children learn what they do when they do.

This novel agency-based model of cognitive development recognizes the important role of (Bayesian) learning, but at the same time places it in the context of the overall agentive organization of children at particular developmental periods....

Sommaire:
at 9 -12 months toddlers become intentional (and joint) agents who also imaginatively and perspectivally represent and learn about possibilities...