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- catalog contributor b7000702.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. An introduction to cognitive development : Basic concepts in cognitive development : Cognition ; Development ; A little history and a contemporary perspective. Issues in cognitive development : Stages of development ; Domain-general versus domain-specific abilities ; Nature and nurture ; The stability and plasticity of intelligence. Changes that occur in cognitive development : Changes in representation ; Changes in intentional control -- 2. Biological bases of cognitive development : Models of gene-environment interactions : The developmental systems of approach ; The genotype -- environment theory. The development of the brain ; Neutronal development ; The development of the neocortex ; The brain's plasticity. Evolution and cognitive development : A sketch of human evolution ; The evolution of the brain ; The evolution of human intelligence. Developmental biology and cognitive development".
- catalog description "11. Reading and number concepts : The development of reading skills : A brief overview of learning to read ; Cognitive development and reading ; Sex differences in reading and verbal abilities. Children's number and arithmetic concepts : Children's number concepts ; Conservation of number ; Young children's knowledge of number ; Children's arithmetic concepts ; Math disabilities ; Sex differences in mathematical ability -- 12. Approaches to the study of intelligence : A brief history of intelligence testing ; The psychometric approach to the study of intelligence : Factors of intelligence ; IQ tests ; Some issues regarding standardized tests. Information-processing approaches to the study of intelligence : Strategies ; Knowledge base ; Speed of information processing ; Megacognition. Piagetian approaches to the study of intelligence ; Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence : The contextual subtheory ; The experiential subtheory ; The componential subtheory ; The triarchic theory and gifted children. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences : Criteria of an intelligence ; Multiple intelligences and education. Ceci's bioecological theory of intelligence : The role of context ; Knowledge and cognitive complexity".
- catalog description "13. Origins, modification, and stability of intellectual differences : A transactional approach to the study of intelligence ; Behavioral genetics and the heritability of intelligence : The concept of heritability ; Elementary cognitive tasks and intelligence ; Familial studies of intelligence. Experience and intelligence : Establishing intellectual competence ; Modification and maintenance of intellectual functioning ; How modifiable is human intelligence?. The stability of intelligence : Defining stability ; Predicting later intelligence from tests in infancy ; The stability of IQ scores over childhood -- 14. Culture, schooling, and cognition : Cultural differences in cognition : Origins of cultural differences ; The cultural context of development. Child-rearing practices, culture, and cognitive development ; Schooling, culture, and cognitive development : Cultural effects on schooling ; Schooling and cognitive development. The costs and benefits of academic preschools.".
- catalog description "3. Piaget's theory : Some assumptions of Piaget's theory : Structures ; Intrinsic activity ; The constructive nature of cognition ; Epigenesis ; Functional invariants ; Equilibration. Stages of development : The sensorimotor stage ; The development of operations. The state of Piaget's theory today : Competence or performance ; Are operations reasonable -- 4. Information-processing approaches : Assumptions of the information-processing approaches : Limited capacity ; The information-processing system ; Representation of knowledge ; Automatic and effortful processes ; Components of information processing. Information-processing perspectives on development : Sensory registers ; The short-term store ; Speed of processing ; Capacity models of cognitive development ; Efficiency of processing. The roles of strategies in cognitive development : Meditational and production deficiencies ; What are production-deficient children doing? ; Utilization deficiencies ; The cost of strategy use ; Multiple strategy use. Children's knowledge base and cognitive development : Experts and novices ; Knowledge and strategies. Attention : Sustaining attention ; Selective attention ; Attentional strategies; Conceptual tempo. Recent critiques of information-processing models of development".
- catalog description "5. Beyond Piaget and information processing: emerging theories of cognitive development : Neo-Piagetian theories : Fischer's skill theory ; Case's theory ; Karmiloff-Smith's neo-Piagetian/neo-nativist theory ; Critique of neo-Piagetian theories. Beyond information processing : Inhibition and resistance to interference ; Fuzzy-trace theory ; Critique of post-information-processing approaches -- 6. Perception : Perceptual development through infancy : Basic perceptual abilities of young infants ; The development of visual perception ; Categorization ; Auditory perception. Perceptual development beyond infancy ; Interpreting ambiguous stimuli ; Learning distinctive features ; Developmental and sex differences in spatial cognition".
- catalog description "7. Representation : Mental representation through infancy : Expressions of the symbolic function ; What do infants know? ; What is infant cognition made of?. Learning to use symbols : Young children's interpretation of pictures and models ; The appearance/reality distinction ; Distinguishing between imagined and real events. Children's theory of mind : Children as mind readers ; Understanding thinking. Representational changes over childhood : Word perception ; Classification ; The development of natural language categories ; The development of word meanings -- 8. Memory : Memory development in infancy ; The development of recognition and recall in childhood : Recognition ; Recall. The development of memory strategies : Rehearsal ; Organization ; Retrieval ; Other strategies ; Sex differences in memory performance and strategy use. Factors that influence children's use of memory strategies : Encoding ; Knowledge base ; Metamemory ; Motivation. Unintentional and implicit memory : Unintentional memory ; Implicit memory. Remembering events : The development of event memory ; Children as eyewitnesses ; Infantile amnesia and the development of autobiographical memory. Piagetian research on reconstructive memory ; Consistency and stability of memory : Memory: domain-general faculty or set of domain-specific abilities ; How stable is memory performance over time?. Forgetting and reminiscence".
- catalog description "9. Language development and cognition / Barbara R. Bjorklund : A brief history of the study of language : Developmental psycholinguistics ; Current perspective. Prelanguage communication : Child-directed speech ; The role of child-directed speech. Children's acquisition of language : Twelve to twenty-four months ; Two to five years ; Language development in later childhood. Why are children so good at acquiring language? : Is there a critical period for learning language? ; The "less is more" hypothesis ; Locke's theory of neurolinguistic development. Sex differences in language acquisition ; The evolution of language : Bickerton's theory of language evolution ; Living fossils and protolanguage. The development of communication skills : Communication and egocentrism ; Metacommunication ; Preschoolers' communication competence. Language and thought : The self-regulatory function of language ; The development of inner speech -- 10. Social cognition : Social cognitive theory : The development of imitation ; The development of self-efficacy. Social information processing ; The development of a concept of self ; Taking the perspective of another : Selman's theory of social role taking ; Perspective taking and cultural learning. Children's humor : Humor and mental effect ; Humor and cognitive development. Cognitive bases of gender identity : The development of gender constancy ; Consequences of gender constancy for gender identification ; Gender schemas ; Gender knowledge, sex-stereotypic behavior, and intelligence ; Children's theories of gender. Cognitive bases of early social functioning : The nature of mother-infant attachment ; Perceptual and cognitive bases of attachment ; Early changes in cognitive abilities and attachment behavior ; Mental models of attachment ; Can quality of attachment affect cognitive competence?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-527) and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xx, 551 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Children's thinking.".
- catalog identifier "0534210007".
- catalog isFormatOf "Children's thinking.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Pacific Grove, Calif. : Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.,".
- catalog relation "Children's thinking.".
- catalog subject "155.4/13 20".
- catalog subject "BF723.C5 B48 1994".
- catalog subject "Child Development.".
- catalog subject "Child.".
- catalog subject "Cognition in children.".
- catalog subject "Cognition.".
- catalog subject "Individual differences in children.".
- catalog subject "Individuality.".
- catalog subject "Infant.".
- catalog subject "WS 105.5 .C7 B626c 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. An introduction to cognitive development : Basic concepts in cognitive development : Cognition ; Development ; A little history and a contemporary perspective. Issues in cognitive development : Stages of development ; Domain-general versus domain-specific abilities ; Nature and nurture ; The stability and plasticity of intelligence. Changes that occur in cognitive development : Changes in representation ; Changes in intentional control -- 2. Biological bases of cognitive development : Models of gene-environment interactions : The developmental systems of approach ; The genotype -- environment theory. The development of the brain ; Neutronal development ; The development of the neocortex ; The brain's plasticity. Evolution and cognitive development : A sketch of human evolution ; The evolution of the brain ; The evolution of human intelligence. Developmental biology and cognitive development".
- catalog tableOfContents "11. Reading and number concepts : The development of reading skills : A brief overview of learning to read ; Cognitive development and reading ; Sex differences in reading and verbal abilities. Children's number and arithmetic concepts : Children's number concepts ; Conservation of number ; Young children's knowledge of number ; Children's arithmetic concepts ; Math disabilities ; Sex differences in mathematical ability -- 12. Approaches to the study of intelligence : A brief history of intelligence testing ; The psychometric approach to the study of intelligence : Factors of intelligence ; IQ tests ; Some issues regarding standardized tests. Information-processing approaches to the study of intelligence : Strategies ; Knowledge base ; Speed of information processing ; Megacognition. Piagetian approaches to the study of intelligence ; Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence : The contextual subtheory ; The experiential subtheory ; The componential subtheory ; The triarchic theory and gifted children. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences : Criteria of an intelligence ; Multiple intelligences and education. Ceci's bioecological theory of intelligence : The role of context ; Knowledge and cognitive complexity".
- catalog tableOfContents "13. Origins, modification, and stability of intellectual differences : A transactional approach to the study of intelligence ; Behavioral genetics and the heritability of intelligence : The concept of heritability ; Elementary cognitive tasks and intelligence ; Familial studies of intelligence. Experience and intelligence : Establishing intellectual competence ; Modification and maintenance of intellectual functioning ; How modifiable is human intelligence?. The stability of intelligence : Defining stability ; Predicting later intelligence from tests in infancy ; The stability of IQ scores over childhood -- 14. Culture, schooling, and cognition : Cultural differences in cognition : Origins of cultural differences ; The cultural context of development. Child-rearing practices, culture, and cognitive development ; Schooling, culture, and cognitive development : Cultural effects on schooling ; Schooling and cognitive development. The costs and benefits of academic preschools.".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. Piaget's theory : Some assumptions of Piaget's theory : Structures ; Intrinsic activity ; The constructive nature of cognition ; Epigenesis ; Functional invariants ; Equilibration. Stages of development : The sensorimotor stage ; The development of operations. The state of Piaget's theory today : Competence or performance ; Are operations reasonable -- 4. Information-processing approaches : Assumptions of the information-processing approaches : Limited capacity ; The information-processing system ; Representation of knowledge ; Automatic and effortful processes ; Components of information processing. Information-processing perspectives on development : Sensory registers ; The short-term store ; Speed of processing ; Capacity models of cognitive development ; Efficiency of processing. The roles of strategies in cognitive development : Meditational and production deficiencies ; What are production-deficient children doing? ; Utilization deficiencies ; The cost of strategy use ; Multiple strategy use. Children's knowledge base and cognitive development : Experts and novices ; Knowledge and strategies. Attention : Sustaining attention ; Selective attention ; Attentional strategies; Conceptual tempo. Recent critiques of information-processing models of development".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. Beyond Piaget and information processing: emerging theories of cognitive development : Neo-Piagetian theories : Fischer's skill theory ; Case's theory ; Karmiloff-Smith's neo-Piagetian/neo-nativist theory ; Critique of neo-Piagetian theories. Beyond information processing : Inhibition and resistance to interference ; Fuzzy-trace theory ; Critique of post-information-processing approaches -- 6. Perception : Perceptual development through infancy : Basic perceptual abilities of young infants ; The development of visual perception ; Categorization ; Auditory perception. Perceptual development beyond infancy ; Interpreting ambiguous stimuli ; Learning distinctive features ; Developmental and sex differences in spatial cognition".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. Representation : Mental representation through infancy : Expressions of the symbolic function ; What do infants know? ; What is infant cognition made of?. Learning to use symbols : Young children's interpretation of pictures and models ; The appearance/reality distinction ; Distinguishing between imagined and real events. Children's theory of mind : Children as mind readers ; Understanding thinking. Representational changes over childhood : Word perception ; Classification ; The development of natural language categories ; The development of word meanings -- 8. Memory : Memory development in infancy ; The development of recognition and recall in childhood : Recognition ; Recall. The development of memory strategies : Rehearsal ; Organization ; Retrieval ; Other strategies ; Sex differences in memory performance and strategy use. Factors that influence children's use of memory strategies : Encoding ; Knowledge base ; Metamemory ; Motivation. Unintentional and implicit memory : Unintentional memory ; Implicit memory. Remembering events : The development of event memory ; Children as eyewitnesses ; Infantile amnesia and the development of autobiographical memory. Piagetian research on reconstructive memory ; Consistency and stability of memory : Memory: domain-general faculty or set of domain-specific abilities ; How stable is memory performance over time?. Forgetting and reminiscence".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. Language development and cognition / Barbara R. Bjorklund : A brief history of the study of language : Developmental psycholinguistics ; Current perspective. Prelanguage communication : Child-directed speech ; The role of child-directed speech. Children's acquisition of language : Twelve to twenty-four months ; Two to five years ; Language development in later childhood. Why are children so good at acquiring language? : Is there a critical period for learning language? ; The "less is more" hypothesis ; Locke's theory of neurolinguistic development. Sex differences in language acquisition ; The evolution of language : Bickerton's theory of language evolution ; Living fossils and protolanguage. The development of communication skills : Communication and egocentrism ; Metacommunication ; Preschoolers' communication competence. Language and thought : The self-regulatory function of language ; The development of inner speech -- 10. Social cognition : Social cognitive theory : The development of imitation ; The development of self-efficacy. Social information processing ; The development of a concept of self ; Taking the perspective of another : Selman's theory of social role taking ; Perspective taking and cultural learning. Children's humor : Humor and mental effect ; Humor and cognitive development. Cognitive bases of gender identity : The development of gender constancy ; Consequences of gender constancy for gender identification ; Gender schemas ; Gender knowledge, sex-stereotypic behavior, and intelligence ; Children's theories of gender. Cognitive bases of early social functioning : The nature of mother-infant attachment ; Perceptual and cognitive bases of attachment ; Early changes in cognitive abilities and attachment behavior ; Mental models of attachment ; Can quality of attachment affect cognitive competence?".
- catalog title "Children's thinking : developmental function and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund.".
- catalog type "text".