The next talk in the CDC seminar series will be given by Sara Baker, University of Salford Date: THURSDAY, May 5th, 5 PM (Please note this talk is on a different day than usual!) Location: Cognitive Development Center, Hattyú u. 14, 3rd floor Individual differences in the expression of folk physical and folk psychological knowledge Abstract: Theories of cognitive development have moved away from the “one-stop shop” view, according to which a single developmental mechanism is responsible for change, and towards a “toolkit” view, whereby domain-general and domain-specific mechanisms interact to produce the behavior we observe. Still, a large amount of variability in cognitive development is not accounted for either in our methods or in our theories. Individual differences continue to represent a great challenge for the scientific study of developmental change. In this talk I will describe experiments which put both intra- and inter-individual variability at centre-stage. Drawing on examples from folk physics and folk psychology in 2- to 15-year-old children, I will discuss some ways in which individual differences contribute to our understanding of cognitive development. _______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-subscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to seminars-unsubscribe(a)cdc.ceu.hu