TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bjorklund,David F.
TI  - Children's thinking: cognitive development and individual differences 
SN  - 0534622453
AV  - BF723.C5 B48 2005
U1  - 155.413 20
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Australia, Belmont, CA
PB  - Thomson/Wadsworth
KW  - Cognition in children
KW  - Individual differences in children
N1  - 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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