The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development [electronic book] / edited by Usha Goswami.

Contributor(s): Goswami, Usha C [editor].

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BookSeries: Wiley-Blackwell handbooks of developmental psychology: Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: Second edition.Description: online resource (xiv, 802 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781405191166 (hardback); 9781444325492 (e-book) .Subject(s): Cognition in children

DDC classification: 155.413 Online resources: E-book

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Infancy: the origins of cognitive development -- Cognitive development in early childhood -- Topics of cognitive development in childhood -- Theories of cognitive development.

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This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience and new chapters on social cognitive development and language Provides state-of-the-art summaries of current research by international specialists in different areas of cognitive development Spans aspects of cognitive development from infancy to the onset of adolescence Includes chapters on symbolic reasoning, pretend play, spatial development, abnormal cognitive development and current theoretical perspectives

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Infancy: the origins of cognitive development -- Cognitive development in early childhood -- Topics of cognitive development in childhood -- Theories of cognitive development.

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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development:
1 How Do Infants Reason about Physical Events?
2 Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, and Theory of Mind
3 Kinds of Agents: The Origins of Understanding Instrumental and Communicative Agency
4 Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy
5 Born to Categorize
6 Early Memory Development
7 Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything Had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought
Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood:
8 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction
9 Language Development
10 Developing a Theory of Mind
11 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development
12 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts
Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood:
13 Memory Development in Childhood
14 Causal Reasoning and Explanation
15 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
16 The Development of Moral Reasoning
17 Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to Enduring Questions
18 Children's Intuitive Physics
19 What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop?
20 Reading Development and Dyslexia
21 Children's Understanding of Mathematics
22 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development
23 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language
24 The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism: A Cognitive Developmental Account
Part IV Theories of Cognitive Development:
25 Piaget's Theory: Past, Present, and Future
26 Vygotsky and Psychology
27 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development
28 Neuroconstructivism
29 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Usha Goswami is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is also Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, which carries out research into the brain basis of literacy, numeracy, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. Dr Goswami has received numerous awards for her work, including the British Psychology Society Spearman Medal, the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize for Dyslexia research, and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust in the United Kingdom, the National Academy of Education in the United States, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.