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Children's Thinking : Developmental Function and Individual Differences
ISBN: 9780534356606 | 0534356605
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Pub. Date: 7/23/1999
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Understandable to both undergraduate and graduate students without sacrificing depth or intellectual honesty, David F. Bjorklund's dynamic book captures the excitement and essence of cognitive development. The author summarizes theory and research, offering breadth of coverage and an empirical presepctive. And as the title, CHILDREN'S THINKING: DEVELOPMENTAL FUNCTION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, would suggest, Bjorklund offers a unique theme, showing readers how the development function can help explain individual differences in cognition.Bjorklund emphasizes the continuous interaction between a child's biological constitution (including genetics) and his or her social environment. Rather than taking a selective approach, Bjorklund extensively summarizes theory and research, offering breadth of coverage and an empirical perspective.
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| 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 | |
| 2. BIOLOGICAL... MORE | |
| Evolution and Cognitive Development | |
| Models of Gene-Environment Interactions | |
| The Development of the Brain | |
| Relevance of Developmental Neuroscience to Understanding Cognitive Development and Implications fo Education | |
| Developmental Biology and Cognitive Development | |
| 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 | |
| 4. PIAGET'S THEORY AND THE NEOPIAGETIANS | |
| Some Assumptions of Piaget's Theory | |
| Stages of Development | |
| The State of Piaget's Theory Today | |
| NeoPiagetian Theories | |
| 5. INFORMATION-PROCESSING APPROACHES | |
| Assumptions of the Information-Processing Approaches | |
| Information-Processing Perspectives on Development | |
| Developmental Differences in the Efficiency of Processing | |
| The Role of Strategies in Cognitive Development | |
| Children's Knowledge Base and Cognitive Development | |
| Attention | |
| New Approaches to Developmental Differences in Information Processing | |
| 6. PERCEPTION | |
| Perceptual Development Through Infancy | |
| Perceptual Development Beyond Infancy | |
| 7. REPRESENTATION | |
| Mental Representation Through Infancy | |
| Learning to Use Symbols | |
| Representational Changes Over Childhood: Evidence of Classification | |
| 8. MEMORY DEVELOPMENT | |
| Memory Development in Infancy | |
| Implicit Memory | |
| Event Memory | |
| Piagetian Research on Reconstructive Memory | |
| The Development of Memory Strategies | |
| Factors That Influence Children's Use of Memory Strategies | |
| Consistency and Stability of Memory | |
| Forgetting and Reminiscence | |
| 9. 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 | |
| 10. PROBLEM SOLVING AND REASONING | |
| Problem Solving | |
| Reasoning | |
| 11. SOCIAL COGNITION | |
| Social Cognitive Theory | |
| Social Information Processing | |
| The Development of a Concept Self | |
| Taking the Perspective of Another | |
| Children's Humor | |
| Cognitive Bases of Gender Identity | |
| How "Special" is Social Cognition? 12. SCHOOLING AND COGNITION | |
| The Development of Reading Skills | |
| Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts | |
| Schooling and Cognitive Development | |
| 13. 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 | |
| Ceci's Biological Theory of Intelligence | |
| 14. ORIGINS, MODIFICATION, AND STABILITY OF INTELLECTUAL DIFFERENCES | |
| A Transactional Approach to the Study of Intelligence | |
| Behavioral Genetics and the Heritability of Intelligence | |
| Experience and Intelligence | |
| The Stability of Intelligence | |
| Epilogue | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Indices |
