Children's Thinking: What Develops?

by Robert Siegler (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780805808841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1978
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert S. Siegler Carnegie-Mellon University

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