Description |
xviii, 669 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. An introduction to cognitive development -- 2. Biological bases of cognitive development -- 3. The social construction of mind: sociocultural perspectives on cognitive development -- 4. Infant perception and cognition -- 5. Thinking in symbols: the development of representation -- 6. The development of folk knowledge -- 7. Learning to think on their own: executive function -- 8. Memory development -- 10. Social cognition -- 11. Schooling and cognition -- 12. Approaches to the study of intelligence -- 13. Origins, modification, and stability of intellectual differences |
Summary |
"Bjorklund shows readers how developmental function can help explain individual differences in cognition by covering both the typical pattern of change in thinking observed over time and the individual differences in children's thinking in infancy and childhood. A major theme of this book is the continuous transaction between the embodied child embedded in a social world: although a child is born prepared to make some sense of the world, his or her mind is also shaped by forces in the physical and social environment. "--Publisher |
Notes |
Previous ed. published as: Children's thinking : developmental function and individual differences |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-643) and indexes |
Subject |
Child development.
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Cognition in children.
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Individual differences in children.
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LC no. |
2010939528 |
ISBN |
1111346054 (paperback) |
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9781111346058 (paperback) |
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