This book offers a unified account of the major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence; and also considers their practical implications. It examines the change processes through which development occurs, as well as the nature of the changes in language, perception, memory, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving that mark cognitive development. Eight central themes presented in the first chapter integrate and unify the presentation. The authors examine Piaget's theory of development, information-processing theories of development, sociocultural theories, perceptual development, language development, memory development, conceptual development, problem solving, social cognition and the development of academic skills. For anyone involved in the thinking processes and development of children.

Children's Thinking (4th Edition)

Robert S. Siegler

Martha Wagner Alibali

Parenting & Relationships

PRENTICE/HALL

Children's Thinking

Robert Siegler

Pearson Education Limited

This book brings together major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence, and also considers the subsequent practical implications. It examines the processes through which development occurs, as well as the nature of the changes that mark cognitive development in language, perception, memory, conceptual understanding and problem-solving. This new edition includes a chapter on problem-solving, highlights major new theories of cognitive development from Ceci, Halford, Keil, Markman and Wellman and discusses the development of such fundamental concepts as time, space and mind. Major emphasis is placed on infants' attention and perception in the first days of life whilst there is thorough exploration of the relation between brain maturation and cognitive development.

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Prentice Hall College Div.

Children's Thinking [RENTAL EDITION], 5th Edition

Children's Thinking [RENTAL EDITION]

Pearson

Health, Family &amp; Lifestyle, Psychology &amp; Psychiatry, Child Developement, Unified account of the major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence; and also considers their practical implications

Children's Thinking: What Develops? 1st Edition

Lawrence Erlbaum

How Children Develop

Judy S. DeLoache

Nancy Eisenberg

Worth Publishers, Incorporated

Psyc 341 How Children Develop Arizona State University

Worth Publishers

How Children Develop (instructor's Edition)

Jenny Saffran

Elizabeth Gershoff

Campbell Leaper

Macmillan Higher Education

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