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| An Introduction to Cognitive Development | |
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| Basic Concepts in Cognitive Development | |
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| Some Issues in Cognitive Development | |
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| Changes That Occur in Cognitive Development | |
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| Overview of the Remainder of the Book | |
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| Summary | |
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| Biological Bases of Cognitive Development | |
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| Evolution and Cognitive Development | |
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| Models of Gene-Environment Interaction | |
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| The Development of the Brain | |
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| Developmental Biology and Cognitive Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Social Construction of Mind: Sociocultural Perspectives on Cognitive Development | |
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| The Role of Culture in Cognitive Development | |
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| Implications for Education | |
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| Sociocultural Theory and Cognitive Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Piaget and the Neo-Piagetians | |
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| Some Assumptions of Piaget's Theory | |
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| Stages of Development | |
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| The State of Piaget's Theory Today | |
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| Neo-Piagetian Theories | |
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| Summary | |
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| Information-Processing Approaches | |
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| Assumptions of Information-Processing Approaches | |
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| Information-Processing Perspectives on Development | |
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| Capacity and Cognitive Development | |
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| Learning How Not to Respond: Inhibition and Resistance to Interference | |
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| The Role of Knowledge Base in Cognitive Development | |
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| Fuzzy-Trace Theory | |
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| Connectionist Perspective of Developmental Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Learning to Think on Their Own: The Role of Strategies in Cognitive Development | |
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| The Development of Strategies | |
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| Strategies and Metacognition | |
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| Culture and Strategies | |
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| How Do Children's Strategies Develop? | |
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| Strategies in the Classroom | |
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| Summary | |
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| Infant Perception | |
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| Basic Perceptual Abilities of Young Infants | |
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| Some Methodologies Used to Assess Infant Perception | |
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| Auditory Development | |
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| The Development of Visual Perception | |
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| Intermodal Integration | |
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| Category Representation | |
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| Infant Perception: A Successful Past and a Bright Future | |
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| Summary | |
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| Spatial Cognition | |
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| The Development of Spatial Abilities in Infants and Toddlers | |
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| Spatial Cognition Beyond Infancy | |
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| Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition | |
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| The Development of Spatial Abilities in Perspective | |
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| Summary | |
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| Representation | |
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| Mental Representation Through Infancy | |
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| Learning to Use Symbols | |
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| Children's Theory of Mind | |
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| Classification | |
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| Summary | |
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| Memory Development | |
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| Memory Development in Infancy | |
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| Implicit Memory | |
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| The Development of Event Memory | |
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| Children as Eyewitnesses | |
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| Consistency and Stability of Memory | |
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| Forgetting | |
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| Summary | |
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| Language Development | |
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| What Makes a Communication System a Language? | |
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| Describing Children's Language Development | |
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| Some Theoretical Perspectives of Language Development | |
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| Gender Differences in Language Acquisition | |
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| Language and Thought | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problem Solving and Reasoning | |
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| Problem Solving | |
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| Tool Use | |
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| Planning | |
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| Reasoning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Social Cognition | |
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| Social Learning | |
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| Social Cognitive Theory | |
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| Cultural Learning | |
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| Social Information Processing | |
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| The Development of a Concept of Self | |
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| Cognitive Bases of Gender Identity | |
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| How "Special" Is Social Cognition? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Schooling and Cognition | |
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| The Development of Reading Skills | |
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| Children's Number and Arithmetic Concepts | |
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| Schooling and Cognitive Development | |
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| Summary | |
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| Approaches to the Study of Intelligence | |
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| The Psychometric Approach to the Study of Intelligence | |
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| Information-Processing Approaches to the Study of Intelligence | |
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| Piagetian Approaches to the Study of Intelligence | |
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| Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence | |
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| Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences | |
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| Summary | |
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| Origins, Modification, and Stability of Intellectual Differences | |
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| A Transactional Approach to the Study of Intelligence | |
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| Behavior Genetics and the Heritability of Intelligence | |
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| Experience and Intelligence | |
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| The Stability of Intelligence | |
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| Summary | |
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| Epilogue: Cognitive Development: What Changes and How? | |
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| Seven "Truths" About Cognitive Development | |
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| Diversity of Opinions, But a Single Science | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Credits | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |