Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences /
Bjorklund, David F., 1949-
Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund. - Fourth edition. - xiii, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-577) and index.
An Introduction to Cognitive Development -- Basic Concepts in Cognitive Development -- Some Issues in Cognitive Development -- Changes That Occur in Cognitive Development -- Overview of the Remainder of the Book -- Summary -- Biological Bases of Cognitive Development -- Evolution and Cognitive Development -- Models of Gene-Environment Interaction -- The Development of the Brain -- Developmental Biology and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- The Social Construction of Mind: Sociocultural Perspectives on Cognitive Development -- The Role of Culture in Cognitive Development -- Implications for Education -- Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- Piaget and the Neo-Piagetians -- Some Assumptions of Piaget's Theory -- Stages of Development -- The State of Piaget's Theory Today -- Neo-Piagetian Theories -- Summary -- Information-Processing Approaches -- Assumptions of Information-Processing Approaches -- Information-Processing Perspectives on Development -- Capacity and Cognitive Development -- Learning How Not to Respond: Inhibition and Resistance to Interference -- The Role of Knowledge Base in Cognitive Development -- Fuzzy-Trace Theory -- Connectionist Perspective of Developmental Change -- Summary -- Learning to Think on Their Own: The Role of Strategies in Cognitive Development -- The Development of Strategies -- Strategies and Metacognition -- Culture and Strategies -- How Do Children's Strategies Develop? -- Strategies in the Classroom -- Summary -- Infant Perception -- Basic Perceptual Abilities of Young Infants -- Some Methodologies Used to Assess Infant Perception -- Auditory Development -- The Development of Visual Perception -- Intermodal Integration -- Category Representation -- Infant Perception: A Successful Past and a Bright Future -- Summary -- Spatial Cognition -- The Development of Spatial Abilities in Infants and Toddlers -- Spatial Cognition Beyond Infancy -- Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition -- The Development of Spatial Abilities in Perspective -- Summary -- Representation -- Mental Representation Through Infancy -- Learning to Use Symbols -- Children's Theory of Mind -- Classification -- Summary -- Memory Development -- Memory Development in Infancy -- Implicit Memory -- The Development of Event Memory -- Children as Eyewitnesses -- Consistency and Stability of Memory -- Forgetting -- Summary -- Language Development -- What Makes a Communication System a Language? -- Describing Children's Language Development -- Some Theoretical Perspectives of Language Development -- Gender Differences in Language Acquisition -- Language and Thought -- Summary -- Problem Solving and Reasoning -- Problem Solving -- Tool Use -- Planning -- Reasoning -- Summary -- Social Cognition -- Social Learning -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Cultural Learning -- Social Information Processing -- The Development of a Concept of Self -- Cognitive Bases of Gender Identity -- How "Special" Is Social Cognition? -- Summary -- Schooling and Cognition -- The Development of Reading Skills -- Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts -- Schooling and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- The Psychometric Approach to the Study of Intelligence -- Information-Processing Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- Piagetian Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence -- Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences -- Summary -- Origins, Modification, and Stability of Intellectual Differences -- A Transactional Approach to the Study of Intelligence -- Behavior Genetics and the Heritability of Intelligence -- Experience and Intelligence -- The Stability of Intelligence -- Summary -- Epilogue: Cognitive Development: What Changes and How? -- Seven "Truths" About Cognitive Development -- Diversity of Opinions, But a Single Science -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Author Index -- Subject Index. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16.
0534622453 9780534622459
2003110790
Cognition in children
Individual differences in children
BF723.C5 / B48 2005
155.413
Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund. - Fourth edition. - xiii, 610 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-577) and index.
An Introduction to Cognitive Development -- Basic Concepts in Cognitive Development -- Some Issues in Cognitive Development -- Changes That Occur in Cognitive Development -- Overview of the Remainder of the Book -- Summary -- Biological Bases of Cognitive Development -- Evolution and Cognitive Development -- Models of Gene-Environment Interaction -- The Development of the Brain -- Developmental Biology and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- The Social Construction of Mind: Sociocultural Perspectives on Cognitive Development -- The Role of Culture in Cognitive Development -- Implications for Education -- Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- Piaget and the Neo-Piagetians -- Some Assumptions of Piaget's Theory -- Stages of Development -- The State of Piaget's Theory Today -- Neo-Piagetian Theories -- Summary -- Information-Processing Approaches -- Assumptions of Information-Processing Approaches -- Information-Processing Perspectives on Development -- Capacity and Cognitive Development -- Learning How Not to Respond: Inhibition and Resistance to Interference -- The Role of Knowledge Base in Cognitive Development -- Fuzzy-Trace Theory -- Connectionist Perspective of Developmental Change -- Summary -- Learning to Think on Their Own: The Role of Strategies in Cognitive Development -- The Development of Strategies -- Strategies and Metacognition -- Culture and Strategies -- How Do Children's Strategies Develop? -- Strategies in the Classroom -- Summary -- Infant Perception -- Basic Perceptual Abilities of Young Infants -- Some Methodologies Used to Assess Infant Perception -- Auditory Development -- The Development of Visual Perception -- Intermodal Integration -- Category Representation -- Infant Perception: A Successful Past and a Bright Future -- Summary -- Spatial Cognition -- The Development of Spatial Abilities in Infants and Toddlers -- Spatial Cognition Beyond Infancy -- Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition -- The Development of Spatial Abilities in Perspective -- Summary -- Representation -- Mental Representation Through Infancy -- Learning to Use Symbols -- Children's Theory of Mind -- Classification -- Summary -- Memory Development -- Memory Development in Infancy -- Implicit Memory -- The Development of Event Memory -- Children as Eyewitnesses -- Consistency and Stability of Memory -- Forgetting -- Summary -- Language Development -- What Makes a Communication System a Language? -- Describing Children's Language Development -- Some Theoretical Perspectives of Language Development -- Gender Differences in Language Acquisition -- Language and Thought -- Summary -- Problem Solving and Reasoning -- Problem Solving -- Tool Use -- Planning -- Reasoning -- Summary -- Social Cognition -- Social Learning -- Social Cognitive Theory -- Cultural Learning -- Social Information Processing -- The Development of a Concept of Self -- Cognitive Bases of Gender Identity -- How "Special" Is Social Cognition? -- Summary -- Schooling and Cognition -- The Development of Reading Skills -- Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts -- Schooling and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- The Psychometric Approach to the Study of Intelligence -- Information-Processing Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- Piagetian Approaches to the Study of Intelligence -- Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence -- Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences -- Summary -- Origins, Modification, and Stability of Intellectual Differences -- A Transactional Approach to the Study of Intelligence -- Behavior Genetics and the Heritability of Intelligence -- Experience and Intelligence -- The Stability of Intelligence -- Summary -- Epilogue: Cognitive Development: What Changes and How? -- Seven "Truths" About Cognitive Development -- Diversity of Opinions, But a Single Science -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Author Index -- Subject Index. Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16.
0534622453 9780534622459
2003110790
Cognition in children
Individual differences in children
BF723.C5 / B48 2005
155.413