Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences

by David F. Bjorklund

Overview

Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by David Bjorklund presents current, thorough research studies and data to show the effects of biology, and both physical and social environments on children's cognitive development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544361338
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/12/2022
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	800
Sales rank:	545,829
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 9.12(h) x (d)

About the Author

David F. Bjorklund is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology. He received a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1971), an MA degree in Psychology from the University of Dayton (1973), and a Ph.D. degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1976). He received an Honorary Doctorate (Doctor philosophiae honoris causa) in 2015 from the University of Bern, Switzerland. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (since 2007). He has published widely on the topics of cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology. His most recent books include How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution (Oxford); Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective (Cambridge); Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy (Springer, co-edited with Sybil Hart); and The Development of Children’s Memory: The Scientific Contributions of Peter A. Ornstein (Cambridge, co-edited with Lynne Baker-Ward and Jennifer Coffman). He lives in Jupiter, Florida with his wife Barbara and enjoys traveling, cooking, playing basketball, and kayaking.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Cognitive Development
Chapter 2. Biological Bases of Cognitive Development
Chapter 3. Social Construction of Mind: Sociocultural Perspectives on Cognitive Development
Chapter 4. Infant Perception and Cognition
Chapter 5. Thinking in Symbols: Development of Representation
Chapter 6. Learning to Think on Their Own: Executive Function and Strategies
Chapter 7. Memory Development
Chapter 8. Problem Solving and Reasoning
Chapter 9. Language Development
Chapter 10. Social Cognition
Chapter 11. Schooling and Cognitive Development
Chapter 12. Approaches to the Study of Intelligence
Chapter 13. Origins, Modification, and Stability of Intellectual Differences