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Author Bjorklund, David F., 1949- author

Title Children's thinking : cognitive development and individual differences / David F. Bjorklund
Edition Fifth edition
Published Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, [2012]
©2012
©2012

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 W'BOOL  155.413 Bjo/Ctc 2012  AVAILABLE
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.
Cognition in children.
Individual differences in children.
LC no. 2010939528
ISBN 1111346054 (paperback)
9781111346058 (paperback)