Children's thinking: cognitive development and individual differences

Preface<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Chapter 1. Introduction to Cognitive Development<br/> Basic Concepts in Cognitive Development<br/> Six Truths of Cognitive Development<br/> Goals of Cognitive Developmentalists<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 2. Biological Bases of Cognitive Development<br/> Evolution and Cognitive Development<br/> Models of Gene-Environment Interaction<br/> Development of the Brain<br/> Developmental Biology and Cognitive Development<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 3. Social Construction of Mind: Sociocultural Perspectives on Cognitive Development<br/> Role of Culture in Cognitive Development<br/> Cognitive Artifacts That Support and Extend Thinking: Tools of Intellectual Adaptation<br/> Social Origins of Early Cognitive Competencies<br/> Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Development<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 4. Infant Perception and Cognition<br/> Basic Perceptual Abilities of Young Infants<br/> Methodologies Used to Assess Infant Perception<br/> Development of Visual Perception<br/> Auditory Development<br/> Combining Senses<br/> Perceptual Narrowing<br/> How Do We Know What Babies Know? The Violation-of-Expectation Method<br/> Core Knowledge<br/> What Is Infant Cognition Made Of?<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 5. Thinking in Symbols: Development of Representation<br/> Learning to Use Symbols<br/> Piaget's Theory<br/> Everyday Expressions of the Symbolic Function<br/> Causal Representation<br/> Fuzzy-Trace Theory<br/> The Symbolic Species<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 6. Development of Folk Knowledge<br/> Theory Theories of Cognitive Development<br/> Folk Psychology: Developing a Theory of Mind<br/> Folk Biology: Understanding the Biological World<br/> Folk Physics: Understanding the Physical World<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 7. Learning to Think on Their Own: Executive Function, Strategies, and Problem Solving<br/> Assumptions of Information-Processing Approaches<br/> Development of Basic-Level Processes: Executive Function<br/> Development of Strategies<br/> Learning to Solve Problems<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 8. Memory Development<br/> Representation of Knowledge<br/> Memory Development in Infancy<br/> Infantile Amnesia<br/> Implicit Memory<br/> Development of Event Memory<br/> Children as Eyewitnesses<br/> Remembering to Remember<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 9. Language Development<br/> What Is Language?<br/> Describing Children's Language Development<br/> Some Theoretical Perspectives of Language Development<br/> Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning<br/> Sex Differences in Language Acquisition<br/> Language and Thought<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 10. Social Cognition<br/> Social Learning<br/> Social Information Processing<br/> Development of a Concept of Self<br/> Cognitive Bases of Gender Identity<br/> How Special Is Social Cognition?<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 11. Schooling and Cognitive Development<br/> Development of Reading Skills<br/> Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts<br/> Schooling and Cognitive Development<br/> Evolutionary Educational Psychology<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 12. Approaches to the Study of Intelligence<br/> Psychometric Approach to the Study of Intelligence<br/> Information-Processing Approaches to the Study of Intelligence<br/> Sternberg's Theory of Successful Intelligence<br/> Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Chapter 13. Origins, Modification, and Stability of Intellectual Differences<br/> Transactional Approach to the Study of Intelligence<br/> Behavioral Genetics and the Heritability of Intelligence<br/> Experience and Intelligence<br/> Stability of Intelligence<br/> Key Terms and Concepts<br/> Suggested Readings<br/>Glossary<br/>References<br/>Index<br/>