alison Gopnik was born June 16 1955 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania she is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published four book in the late 90s (How Babies think: the science of childhood, The scientist in the crib, The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, Words, thoughts, and theories). Her interests are cognitive development, causal learning, psychology and philosophy. Alison’s research explores how young children come to know about the world around them, she is a child development psychologist. Her field is the developmental psychology and her thesis is the development of non-nominal expressions
