Developmental Psychology Arena

Agency

Its Role In Mental Development

• By James Russell

The idea behind this book is that developing a conception of the physical world and a conception of mind is impossible without the exercise of...

Published January 31st 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Developing Cognitive Competence

New Approaches To Process Modeling

• Edited by Tony J. Simon, Graeme S. Halford

Although computational modeling is now a widespread technique in cognitive science and in psychology, relatively little work in developmental psychology has used this technique. The...

Published April 1st 1995 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills

• By Michael A. Forrester

Understanding how young children begin to make sense out of the social world has become a major concern within developmental psychology. Over the last 25...

Published February 27th 1995 by Psychology Press.

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The Nature and Ontogenesis of Meaning

• Edited by Willis F. Overton, David S. Palermo

Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.

For Piaget, all knowing...

Published June 1st 1994 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Early Understanding of Mind

Origins and Development

• By Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell

A major feature of human intelligence is that it allows us to contemplate mental life. Such an understanding is vital in enabling us to function...

Published May 25th 1994 by Psychology Press.

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Social Interaction and the Development of Language and Cognition

• By Alison F. Garton

For students of developmental psychology, this book should be a useful reference guide to the main concepts concerned with "motherese", scaffolding, socio-cognitive learning and joint...

Published January 22nd 1992 by Psychology Press.

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The Epigenesis of Mind

Essays on Biology and Cognition

• Edited by Susan Carey, Rochel Gelman

Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed.

Among...

Published April 1st 1991 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Strategies

Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development

• Edited by David F. Bjorklund

One of the issues central to both classic and contemporary theories of cognitive development is children's goal-directed behavior, which is typically investigated in terms of...

Published June 1st 1990 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Reasoning, Necessity, and Logic

Developmental Perspectives

• Edited by Willis F. Overton

A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and...

Published April 1st 1990 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Development and Learning

Conflict Or Congruence?

• Edited by Lynn S. Liben

This volume juxtaposes two different domains of developmental theory: the Piagetian approach and the information-processing approach.

Articles by experts in both fields discuss how concepts of...

Published July 1st 1987 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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