Children's thinking : what develops?
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Children's thinking : what develops?
L. Erlbaum Associates , distributed by Halsted Press Division of Wiley, 1978
Available at 63 libraries
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An outgrowth of the 13th annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium, held in May 1977
Includes bibliographies and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First published in 1978. In 1963, John Flavell posed one of the truly basic questions underlying the study of children's thinking; his question was simply "What develops?" This volume holds the papers from the 13th Annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium, held in May 1977, that considering what progress had been made toward answering this question in the past 15 years.
Table of Contents
PART I: MEMORY DEVELOPMENT 1. Skills, Plans, and Self-Regulation 2. Intellectual Development from Birth to Adulthood: A Neo-Piagetian Interpretation 3. Knowledge Structures and Memory Development 4. Comments PART II: PROBLEM SOLVING 5. The Origins of Scientific Reasoning 6. How Do Children Solve Class-Inclusion Problems? 7. Goal Formation, Planning, and Learning by Pre-School Problem Solvers or: "My Socks are in the Dryer" 8. Counting in the Preschooler: What Does and Does Not Develop 9. A Discussion of the Chapters by Siegler, Trabasso, Klahr, and Gelman PART III: REPRESENTATIONAL PROCESSES 10. How Children Represent Knowledge of Their World In and Out of Language: A Preliminary Report 11. Spatial Concepts, Spatial Names, and the Development of Exocentric Representations 12. Imagery and Cognitive Development: A Teleological Approach 13. Individual Differences in Solving Physics Problems 14. Representing Knowledge Development
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