Overview

Human reasoning is marked by an ability to remember one's personal past and to imagine one's future. Together these capacities rely on the notion of a temporally extended self or the self in time. Recent evidence suggests that it is during the preschool period that children first construct this form of self. By about four years of age, children can remember events from their pasts and reconstruct a personal narrative integrating these events. They know that past events in which they participated affect present circumstances. They can also imagine the future and make decisions designed to bring about desirable future events even in the face of competing immediate gratification. This book brings together the leading researchers on these issues and for the first time in literature, illustrates how a unified approach based on the idea of a temporally extended self can integrate these topics.

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Author:   Chris Moore ,  Karen Lemmon ,  Karen Skene
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780415652759

ISBN 10:   0415652758
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   14 February 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents: Preface. C. Moore, K. Lemmon, The Nature and Utility of the Temporally Extended Self. K. Nelson, Language and the Self: From the ""Experiencing I"" to the ""Continuing Me."" R. Fivush, Owning Experience: Developing Subjective Perspective in Autobiographical Narratives. J.A. Hudson, The Anticipated Self: Mother-Child Talk About Future Events. D.J. Povinelli, The Self: Elevated in Consciousness and Extended in Time. M. Welch-Ross, Personalizing the Temporally Extended Self: Evaluative Self-Awareness and the Development of Autobiographical Memory. C.M. Atance, D.K. O'Neill, Planning in 3-Year-Olds: A Reflection of the Future Self? J. Barresi, Extending Self-Consciousness Into the Future. K. Lemmon, C. Moore, Binding the Self in Time. J. Perner, Episodic Memory: Essential Distinctions and Developmental Implications. T. McCormack, C. Hoerl, The Child in Time: Temporal Concepts and Self-Consciousness in the Development of Episodic Memory. P.D. Zelazo, J.A. Sommerville, Levels of Consciousness of the Self in Time."

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""...it is a very interesting and well-presented book that deals with the complicated area of self-concept and continuity over time, filling a void in particular, of work related to the future self."" —Infant Child Development

...it is a very interesting and well-presented book that deals with the complicated area of self-concept and continuity over time, filling a void in particular, of work related to the future self. -Infant Child Development

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