Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development / edited by Usha Goswami.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gosvāmī, Ushā.

Series:

Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in children.

Physical Description:

xiii, 761 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.

Summary:

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. It provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development, written to be of interest to scholars as well as upper level students. 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 categorization, memory, reasoning and language, the volume includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives.

Contents:

pt. 1. Infancy : the origins of cognitive developoment. Imitation as a mechanism of social cognition : origins of empathy, theory of mind, and the representation of action / Andrew N. Meltzoff

The development of understanding self and agency / György Gergely

The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy : a summary in eight lessons / Renée Baillargeon

Early categorization : a new synthesis / Paul C. Quinn

Early word-learning and conceptual development : everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought / Sandra R. Waxman

Early memory development / Patricia J. Bauer

pt. 2. Cognitive development in early childhood. Development of the animate-inanimate distinction / Susan A. Gelman, John E. Opfer

Understanding the psychological world : developing a theory of mind / Henry M. Wellman

Pretend play and cognitive development / Angeline Lillard

Early development of the understanding and use of symbolic artifacts / Judy S. DeLoache

pt. 3. Topics in cognitive development in childhod. Memory development in childhood / Wolfgang Schneider

The development of causal reasoning / Barbara Koslowski, Amy Masnick

Inductive and deductive reasoning / Usha Goswami

The development of moral reasoning / Larry P. Nucci

Spatial development in childhood : where are we now? / Lynn S. Liben

Children's intuitive physics / Friedrich Wilkening, Susanne Huber

What is scientific thinking and how does it develop? / Deanna Kuhn

Reading development and dyslexia / Margaret J. Snowling

Children's understanding of mathematics / Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nuñes

pt. 4. Topics in atypical cognitive development. Executive function in typical and atypical development / Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller

Language and cognition : evidence from disordered language / Barbara Dodd, Sharon Crosbie

The exact mind : empathizing and systemizing in autism spectrum conditions / Simon Baron-Cohen ... [et al.]

pt. 5. Models of cognitive development. Piaget's model / Leslie Smith

Vygotsky's model of cognitive development / Shawn M. Rowe, James V. Wertsch

Information-processing models of cognitive development / Graeme S. Halford

Modeling typical and atypical cognitive development : computational constraints on mechanisms of change / Michael S.C. Thomas, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Individual differences in cognitive development / Robert J. Sternberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [620]-736) and index.

ISBN:

0631218408

OCLC:

49226096