Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development
By: edited by Usha Goswami
Contributors: Goswami, Usha
Series: Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 761
Subjects: Cognition in children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [620]-736) and index
Table of contents: title: 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; title: The development of understanding self and agency / György Gergely; title: The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy : a summary in eight lessons / Renée Baillargeon; title: Early categorization : a new synthesis / Paul C. Quinn; title: Early word-learning and conceptual development : everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought / Sandra R. Waxman; title: Early memory development / Patricia J. Bauer; title: pt. 2. Cognitive development in early childhood. Development of the animate-inanimate distinction / Susan A. Gelman, John E. Opfer; title: Understanding the psychological world : developing a theory of mind / Henry M. Wellman; title: Pretend play and cognitive development / Angeline Lillard; title: Early development of the understanding and use of symbolic artifacts / Judy S. DeLoache; title: pt. 3. Topics in cognitive development in childhod. Memory development in childhood / Wolfgang Schneider; title: The development of causal reasoning / Barbara Koslowski, Amy Masnick; title: Inductive and deductive reasoning / Usha Goswami; title: The development of moral reasoning / Larry P. Nucci; title: Spatial development in childhood : where are we now? / Lynn S. Liben; title: Children's intuitive physics / Friedrich Wilkening, Susanne Huber; title: What is scientific thinking and how does it develop? / Deanna Kuhn; title: Reading development and dyslexia / Margaret J. Snowling; title: Children's understanding of mathematics / Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nuñes; title: pt. 4. Topics in atypical cognitive development. Executive function in typical and atypical development / Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller; title: Language and cognition : evidence from disordered language / Barbara Dodd, Sharon Crosbie; title: The exact mind : empathizing and systemizing in autism spectrum conditions / Simon Baron-Cohen ... [et al.]; title: pt. 5. Models of cognitive development. Piaget's model / Leslie Smith; title: Vygotsky's model of cognitive development / Shawn M. Rowe, James V. Wertsch; title: Information-processing models of cognitive development / Graeme S. Halford; title: Modeling typical and atypical cognitive development : computational constraints on mechanisms of change / Michael S.C. Thomas, Annette Karmiloff-Smith; title: Individual differences in cognitive development / Robert J. Sternberg