04568nam a22001697a 4500 160516b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0534356605 BF723.C5.B48 Bjorklund, David F. Children's Thinking: developmental function and individual differences. / David F. Bjorklund 3rd ed. Toronto: Wadsworth, c2000. xvi,587p.: ill.; 24cm Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: An Introduction to cognitive development: Basic concepts in cognitive development -- Some issues in cognitive development -- Overview of the remainder of the book -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Biological bases of cognitive development: Evolution and cognitive development -- Models of gene-environment interactions -- The development of the brain -- Relevance of developmental cognitive neuroscience to understanding cognitive development and implications for education -- developmental biology and cognitive development -- Summary --Note -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- The social construction of mind: sociocultural perspectives on cognitive development -- The role of culture on cognitive development: Implications for education -- Sociocultural theory and cognitive development -- Summary -- Note -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Piaget's theory and the neo-piagetians: Some assumptions of piaget's theory -- Stages of development -- The state of piaget's theory today -- Neo piagetian theories -- Summary -- Note -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Information processing approaches: Assumptions of the information-processing approaches -- Information- processing perspectives on development -- The role of strategies in cognitive development -- Children's knowledge base and cognitive development -- Attention -- New approaches to developmental differences in information processing -- Summary -- Notes -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Representation: Mental representation through infancy -- Learning to use symbols -- Representational changes over childhood: evidence from classification -- Summary -- Notes -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Memory Development: Memory development in infancy -- Implicit memory -- Remembering events -- Piagetian research on reconstructive memory -- The development of memory strategies -- Factors that influence children's use of memory stratergies -- Consistency and stability of memory -- Forgetting and reminiscence -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Language development: What makes a communication system a language -- Describing children's language development -- Some theoritical perspectives of language development -- Gender differences in language acquisition -- Language and thought -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Problem solving an reasoning:Problem solving -- Planning -- Reasoning -- Summary -- Note -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested Readings -- Social cognition: Social cognitive theory -- Social information processing -- The development of a concept of self -- Taking the perspective of another -- Children's humor -- cognitive bases of gender identity -- How "special" is social cognition? -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings: Schooling and cognition -- The development of reading skills -- children's number and arithmetic concepts -- schooling and cognitive development -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested Readings -- 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 triachic theory of intelligence -- Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences -- Ceci's bioecological theory of intelligence -- Summary -- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- 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 -- Summary -- Note-- Key terms and concepts -- Suggested readings -- Epilogue: cognitive development: What changes and how?: Seven "truths'' about cognitive development -- diversity of opinions, but a single science -- Glossary -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index lcc BK 5929 13429 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2016-05-16 0 BF723.C5.B48 8039/001/16 2016-05-16 00:00:00 1 2016-05-16 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2016-05-16 0 BF723.C5.B481 8040/002/16 2016-05-16 00:00:00 2 2016-05-16 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2016-05-16 0 BF723.C5.B4812 8041/003/16 2016-05-16 00:00:00 3 2016-05-16 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 GEN 2018-04-13 0 BF723.C5.B483 8198/016/18 2018-04-13 00:00:00 4 2018-04-13 BK