Includes bibliographical references (p. [620]-736) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. Infancy : the origins of cognitive development. Imitation as a mechanism of social cognition : origins of empathy, theory of mind, and the representation of action / Andrew N. Meltzoff -- The development of understanding self and agency / György Gergely -- The acquisition of physical knowledge in infancy : a summary in eight lessons / Renée Baillargeon -- Early categorization : a new synthesis / Paul C. Quinn -- Early word-learning and conceptual development : everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought / Sandra R. Waxman -- Early memory development / Patricia J. Bauer -- pt. 2. Cognitive development in early childhood. Development of the animate-inanimate distinction / Susan A. Gelman, John E. Opfer -- Understanding the psychological world : developing a theory of mind / Henry M. Wellman -- Pretend play and cognitive development / Angeline Lillard -- Early development of the understanding and use of symbolic artifacts / Judy S. DeLoache -- pt. 3. Topics in cognitive development in childhod. Memory development in childhood / Wolfgang Schneider -- The development of causal reasoning / Barbara Koslowski, Amy Masnick -- Inductive and deductive reasoning / Usha Goswami -- The development of moral reasoning / Larry P. Nucci -- Spatial development in childhood : where are we now? / Lynn S. Liben -- Children's intuitive physics / Friedrich Wilkening, Susanne Huber -- What is scientific thinking and how does it develop? / Deanna Kuhn -- Reading development and dyslexia / Margaret J. Snowling -- Children's understanding of mathematics / Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nuñes -- pt. 4. Topics in atypical cognitive development. Executive function in typical and atypical development / Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller -- Language and cognition : evidence from disordered language / Barbara Dodd, Sharon Crosbie -- The exact mind : empathizing and systemizing in autism spectrum conditions / Simon Baron-Cohen ... [et al.] -- pt. 5. Models of cognitive development. Piaget's model / Leslie Smith -- Vygotsky's model of cognitive development / Shawn M. Rowe, James V. Wertsch -- Information-processing models of cognitive development / Graeme S. Halford -- Modeling typical and atypical cognitive development : computational constraints on mechanisms of change / Michael S.C. Thomas, Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Individual differences in cognitive development / Robert J. Sternberg.
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