| Description |
xiii, 761 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology |
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Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology.
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development. 1. Imitation as a Mechanism of Social Cognition: Origins of Empathy, Theory of Mind, and the Representation of Action / Andrew N. Meltzoff. 2. The Development of Understanding Self and Agency / Gyorgy Gergely. 3. The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in Eight Lessons / Renee Baillargeon. 4. Early Categorization: A New Synthesis / Paul C. Quinn. 5. Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought / Sandra R. Waxman. 6. Early Memory Development / Patricia J. Bauer -- Pt. II. Cognitive Development in Early Childhood. 7. Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction / Susan A. Gelman and John E. Opfer. 8. Understanding the Psychological World: Developing a Theory of Mind / Henry M. Wellman. 9. Pretend Play and Cognitive Development / Angeline Lillard. 10. Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts / Judy S. DeLoache -- Pt. III. Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood. 11. Memory Development in Childhood / Wolfgang Schneider. 12. The Development of Causal Reasoning / Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick. 13. Inductive and Deductive Reasoning / Usha Goswami. 14. The Development of Moral Reasoning / Larry P. Nucci. 15. Spatial Development in Childhood: Where Are We Now? / Lynn S. Liben. 16. Children's Intuitive Physics / Friedrich Wilkening and Susanne Huber. 17. What is Scientific Thinking, and How Does It Develop? / Deanna Kuhn. 18. Reading Development and Dyslexia / Margaret J. Snowling. 19. Children's Understanding of Mathematics / Peter Bryant and Terezhina Nunes -- Pt. IV. Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development. 20. Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development / Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Muller. 21. Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language / Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie. 22. The Exact Mind: Empathizing and Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Conditions / Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright and John Lawson / [et al.] -- Pt. V. Models of Cognitive Development. 23. Piaget's Model / Leslie Smith. 24. Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development / Shawn M. Rowe and James V. Wertsch. 25. Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development / Graeme S. Halford. 26. Modeling Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development: Computational Constraints on Mechanisms of Change / Michael S. C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith. 27. Individual Differences in Cognitive Development / Robert J. Sternberg |
| Summary |
The handbook spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence and offers an overview of all the major areas of importance in the field. As well as coverage of basic research topics such as categorizations, memory, reasoning, and language, the volume includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development, and current theoretical perspectives |
| Analysis |
Cognition in children |
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Kognitive Entwicklung ; SWD-ID: 41332799 |
| Notes |
First published in paperback 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [620]-736) and index |
| Notes |
Electronic version is available via Blackwell reference and NetLibrary |
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Child development.
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Developmental psychology.
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Cognition in children -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Critical thinking in children.
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Cognition in children.
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Cognition.
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Child.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
Goswami, Usha C.
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EBSCOHost ebooks
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Blackwell reference
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| LC no. |
2002023054 |
| ISBN |
0631218408 hardback |
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0631218416 paperback |
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