Cognitive Development

Explores the psychology of children with updated, revised and expanded coverage of the field. Providing you with the latest research findings and opinions of distinguished authorities, it covers four areas: history, theory and methods; infancy and developmental psychobiology; cognitive development; and socialization, personality and social development. Included are integrative summaries, new perspectives and insights, critical analyses and explications of deficiencies in existing data and theoretical orientations. Going beyond merely a simple encyclopedic review of accumulated knowledge--the author offers a source book that encourages sophisticated thinking about fundamental issues, the formulation of questions and hypotheses and, in the long run, more good research.

An introduction to many topics in the field of childhood cognitive development, this text covers the highlights of intellectual growth during infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence; development aspects of social cognition, perception, memory and language; the theoretical approaches of Piaget, the Gibsons, information-processing psychologists, and others. All the chapters in this new edition have been updated, and in keeping with recent trends in the filed, in various chapters there is more emphasis on theory-based approaches, toddlers' representational abilities, the role of capacity in cognitive functioning, and constraints and domain specificity. For developmental psychologists, sociologists, and all those interested in cognitive development.