Individual Development from 3 to 12: Findings From the Munich Longitudinal Study

by Edited by Franz E. Weinert , Wolfgang Schneider

• ISBN13: 9780521176347
• ISBN10: 0521176344
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-03
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book describes the findings of a longitudinal study conducted with about 200 children from 1984 to 1993. Children were recruited for the study when they had just entered kindergarten at the age of about 4 years. The study aimed to investigate changes in cognitive, social, and personality development over the preschool and elementary school years. One of the unique features of this longitudinal study is that relationships and interactions among cognitive, social, and personality development could be assessed based on the data of a representative sample of children. Researchers in developmental psychology and child development will find much pertinent information in this volume.

Table of Contents

Logic: introduction and overview

The development of intelligence and thinking

What individual differences can teach us about developmental function, and vice versa

Scientific reasoning: developmental and individual differences

Comments on 'scientific' reasoning: developmental and individual differences

Memory strategy development: gradual increase, sudden insight, or roller coaster

Toward an understanding of the development of memory: comments on the chapters

Memory for events experienced and events observed

The development of memory for texts

Developmental trends in story recall

The impact of early phonological processing skills on reading and spelling in school: evidence from the Munich Longitudinal Study

Sound logic

Development of mathematical competencies

Commentary on development of mathematical competencies

Schooling and the development of achievement differences

Schooling and the development of achievement differences

From optimism to realism?: development of children's academic self-concept from Kindergarten to Grade 6

The logic and meaning of declining perceptions of academic competence

Social-personality development

Contributions to knowledge about social-personality development: the Munich Logic Study

The development of moral understanding and moral motivation

Caring about morality: the development of moral motivation in Nunner-Winkler's work

A person-centered approach to development: the temporal consistency of personality and self-concept

Regarding 'a person-centered approach to development

Universal, differential and individual aspects of child development from 3 to 12: what can we learn from a comprehensive longitudinal study?

References

Index

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