Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (Fifth Edition)

David F. Bjorklund

ISBN 10: 1111346054 / ISBN 13: 9781111346058

Published by Wadsworth, 2012

About this Item

Cover is worn and very lightly soiled. Corners are bumped and creased. Half-inch tear at three spine corners, but binding is tight. Several stickers on back cover and spine from previous seller. Initials inked on first blank page. Ink mark on bottom edge of pages (not visible from inside). Spine is cracked between first two pages and last two pages, but still intact and pages are not loose. Highlighting on many pages, but no markings that obscure text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (Fifth Edition)
• Publisher: Wadsworth
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1111346054
• ISBN 13: 9781111346058
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education
  • Psychology

About this title

Synopsis

A comprehensive book supported by extensive research studies and data, Bjorklund's text presents the broadest coverage of topics in cognitive development. Unlike other books, Bjorklund shows readers how developmental function can help explain individual differences in cognition by covering both the typical pattern of change in thinking observed over time and the individual differences in children's thinking in infancy and childhood. A major theme of this book is the continuous transaction between the embodied child embedded in a social world: although a child is born prepared to make some sense of the world, his or her mind is also shaped by forces in the physical and social environment.

About the Author

David F. Bjorklund is Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental psychology since 1976. He received a B.A. degree in psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1971, an M.A. degree in psychology from the University of Dayton in 1973, and a Ph.D. degree in developmental psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He has received numerous teaching and research awards from Florida Atlantic University, and is the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. He has co-authored several books. Bjorklund has served as Associate Editor of CHILD DEVELOPMENT, published by the Society for Research in Child Development, has served on the editorial boards of DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEW, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW, JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, and SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY, and has served as a contributing editor to PARENTS MAGAZINE. He has published more than 100 scholarly articles on various topics relating to child development and has received financial support for his research from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the German Research Foundation. His current research interests include children's cognitive development, cognitive developmental primatology, and evolutionary developmental psychology.