Although when Shelly gave her tips to the crowd on making small
talk at social functions, I realised I've nailed most of them, except for active listening.
To illustrate, this
talk will focus on infants» knowledge of objects, agents, and
social beings, and on two new systems of concepts that emerge quite suddenly
at the end of the first year: concepts of objects as kinds whose forms afford specific
functions for action, and concepts of people as
social agents whose mental states are shareable experiences of the things they act upon.