The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development / edited by Usha Goswami.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Introduction / Usha Goswami -- Infancy. Part Introduction -- Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development. How Do Infants Reason about Physical Events? / Renée Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yael Gertner, Di Wu -- Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, and Theory of Mind / Andrew N Meltzoff -- Kinds of Agents: The Origins of Understanding Instrumental and Communicative Agency / Gyorgy Gergely -- Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy / Malinda Carpenter -- Born to Categorize / Paul C Quinn -- Early Memory Development / Patricia J Bauer, Marina Larkina, Joanne Deocampo -- Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development / Sandra R Waxman, Erin M Leddon -- Cognitive Development in Early Childhood. Part Introduction -- Development of the Animate₆Inanimate Distinction / John E Opfer, Susan A Gelman -- Language Development / Michael Tomasello -- Developing a Theory of Mind / Henry M Wellman -- Pretend Play and Cognitive Development / Angeline Lillard, Ashley M Pinkham, Eric Smith -- Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts / Judy S DeLoache -- Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood. Part Introduction -- Memory Development in Childhood / Wolfgang Schneider -- Causal Reasoning and Explanation / Barbara Koslowski, Amy Masnick -- Inductive and Deductive Reasoning / Usha Goswami -- The Development of Moral Reasoning / Larry P Nucci, Matthew Gingo -- Spatial Development / Lynn S Liben, Adam E Christensen -- Children's Intuitive Physics / Friedrich Wilkening, Trix Cacchione -- What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop? / Deanna Kuhn -- Reading Development and Dyslexia / Margaret J Snowling, Silke M G̲bel -- Children's Understanding of Mathematics / Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nue̜s -- Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development / Philip David Zelazo, Ulrich Müller -- Language and Cognition / Barbara Dodd, Sharon Crosbie -- The Empathizing-Systematizing (E-S) Theory of Autism / Simon Baron-Cohen -- Theories of Cognitive Development. Part Introduction -- Piaget's Theory / Patricia H Miller -- Vygotsky and Psychology / Harry Daniels -- Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development / Graeme S Halford, Glenda Andrews -- Neuroconstructivism / Gert Westermann, Michael S C Thomas, Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Individual Differences in Cognitive Development / Robert J Sternberg -- Index.

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