Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

by Goswami, Usha

• ISBN13: 9780631218418
• ISBN10: 0631218416
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This definitive volume provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by leading specialists in different areas of cognitive development. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit www.xreferplus.com

Author Biography

Usha Goswami is Professor of Education, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Prior to that she was a lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	x
List of Contributors	xi
Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development	1	(146)
1 Imitation as a Mechanism of Social Cognition: Origins of Empathy, Theory of Mind, and the Representation of Action	6	(20)
Andrew N. Meltzoff
2 The Development of Understanding Self and Agency	26	(21)
György Gergely
3 The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in Eight Lessons	47	(37)
Renée Baillargeon
4 Early Categorization: A New Synthesis	84	(18)
Paul C. Quinn
5 Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought	102	(25)
Sandra R. Waxman
6 Early Memory Development	127	(20)
Patricia J. Bauer
Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood	147	(80)
7 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction	151	(16)
Susan A. Gelman and John E. Opfer
8 Understanding the Psychological World: Developing a Theory of Mind	167	(21)
Henry M. Wellman
9 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development	188	(18)
Angeline Lillard
10 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts	206	(21)
Judy S. DeLoaehe
Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood	227	(218)
11 Memory Development in Childhood	236	(21)
Wolfgang Schneider
12 The Development of Causal Reasoning	257	(25)
Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick
13 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning	282	(21)
Usha Goswami
14 The Development of Moral Reasoning	303	(23)
Larry P. Nucci
15 Spatial Development in Childhood: Where Are We Now?	326	(23)
Lynn S. Liben
16 Children's Intuitive Physics	349	(22)
Friedrich Wilkening and Susanne Huber
17 What is Scientific Thinking, and How Does It Develop?	371	(23)
Deanna Kuhn
18 Reading Development and Dyslexia	394	(18)
Margaret J. Snowling
19 Children's Understanding of Mathematics	412	(33)
Peter Bryant and Terezhina Nuñes
Part IV Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development 44I
20 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development	445	(25)
Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller
21 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language	470	(21)
Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie
22 The Exact Mind: Empathizing and Systemizing in Autism Spectrum Conditions	491	(18)
Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, John Lawson, Rick Griffin, and Jacqueline Hill
Part V Models of Cognitive Development	509	(111)
23 Piaget's Model	515	(23)
Leslie Smith
24 Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development	538	(17)
Shawn M. Rowe and James V. Wertsch
25 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development	555	(20)
Graeme S. Halford
26 Modeling Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development: Computational Constraints on Mechanisms of Change	575	(25)
Michael S.C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith
27 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development	600	(20)
Robert J. Sternberg
References	620	(117)
Index	737