Advances in child development and behavior / edited by Robert V. Kail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kail, Robert V.

Series:

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in child development and behavior ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Academic Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Advances in Child Behavior and Development series has a well-deserved reputation for publishing seminal articles that move established programs of developmental scholarship forward in creative new directions. Consistent with this reputation, the articles in Volume 33 of the series offer ground-breaking work on topics as diverse as children's problem-solving strategies, intentionality, mathematical reasoning, and socialization within and beyond school settings. Although the substantive topics differ, what unites the contributions are their uniformly high level of scholarship, creativity,

Contents:

Front Cover; Advances in Child Development and Behavior; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. A Computational Model of Conscious and Unconscious Strategy Discovery; I. Introduction; II. Example 1: Simple Addition; III. Example 2: The Inversion Problem; IV. Conclusion; References; Chapter 2. Out-of-School Settings as a Developmental Context for Children and Youth; I. Conceptual Frameworks; II. After-School Programs; III. Structured Activities; IV. Summary and Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Mechanisms of Change in the Development of Mathematical Reasoning

I. IntroductionII. Mechanisms that Involve Reciprocal Relations between Knowledge of Problem-Solving Procedures and Knowledge of Concepts; III. Mechanisms that Involve Expressing Knowledge in Speech and Gesture; IV. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4. A Social Identity Approach to Ethnic Differences in Family Relationships during Adolescence; I. A Social Identity Approach; II. Ethnicity and Family Identity; III. Ethnic Differences in Family Relationships; IV. New and Continuing Areas of Inquiry; V. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. What Develops in Language Development?

I. IntroductionII. Linguistic Generativity-How Creative are We?; III. What is the Computational Endowment of the Language Learner?; IV. What Constitutes Evidence of Generalization?; V. Are There Constraints on What is Learnable?; VI. Conclusion-What Develops in Language Development?; References; Chapter 6. The Role of Children's Competence Experiences in the Socialization Process: A Dynamic Process Framework for the Academic Arena; I. Introduction; II. Children's Competence Experiences in the Academic Arena; III. Parents' Involvement in the Academic Arena

IV. A Dynamic Socialization Framework for the Academic ArenaV. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 7. The Infant Origins of Intentional Understanding; I. Introduction; II. What Infants Know About Action; III. Origins of Infants' Action Knowledge; IV. Final Remarks; References; Chapter 8. Analyzing Comorbidity; I. Introduction; II. Explanations of Comorbidity; III. Methods for Analyzing Comorbidity; IV. Analyses of Specific Comorbidities; V. Multifactorial Model; References; Chapter 9. Number Words and Number Concepts: The Interplay of Verbal and Nonverbal Quantification in Early Childhood

I. IntroductionII. The Relation Between Language and Concepts; III. Number Development at Close Range; IV. Toward a Mechanistic Account; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Contents of Previous Volumes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-63030-2

9786610630301

0-08-045930-7

OCLC:

476002227