Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 522-577) and index.

Chapter 1. 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 -- Chapter 2. 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 -- Chapter 3. 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 -- Chapter 4. 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 -- Chapter 5. 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 -- Chapter 6. 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 -- Chapter 7. 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 -- Chapter 8. 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 -- Chapter 9. Representation -- Mental Representation Through Infancy -- Learning to Use Symbols -- Children's Theory of Mind -- Classification -- Summary -- Chapter 10. Memory Development -- Memory Development in Infancy -- Implicit Memory -- The Development of Event Memory -- Children as Eyewitnesses -- Consistency and Stability of Memory -- Forgetting -- Summary -- Chapter 11. 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 -- Chapter 12. Problem Solving and Reasoning -- Problem Solving -- Tool Use -- Planning -- Reasoning -- Summary -- Chapter 13. 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 -- Chapter 14. Schooling and Cognition -- The Development of Reading Skills -- Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts -- Schooling and Cognitive Development -- Summary -- Chapter 15. 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 -- Chapter 16. 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.

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