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41. The Nature of Intellectual Styles

    By Li-fang Zhang, Robert J. Sternberg

    Series: Educational Psychology Series

    This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. Readers will gain a broad understanding of the field--its nature, origins, historical development, theories,...

    Published March 6th 2006 by Routledge
42. The Development of Commonsense Psychology

    By Chris Moore

    Series: Developing Mind Series

    How do children develop an understanding of people as psychological entities - as feeling, thinking beings? How do they come to understand human behavior as driven by desires and informed by reason? These questions are at the heart of contemporary research on children’s "theories of mind." Although...

    Published February 2nd 2006 by Psychology Press
43. The Development and Education of the Mind

    The Selected Works of Howard Gardner

    By Howard Gardner

    Series: World Library of Educationalists

    Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, this collection reveals the thinking, the concepts and the empirical research that have made Gardner one of the most respected and cited educational...

    Published November 23rd 2005 by Routledge
44. Introducing Cognitive Development

    By Laura Taylor

    Series: Psychology Focus

    Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable. Introducing Cognitive Development brings a new focus and clarity to this theoretically complex area. Using numerous illustrations...

    Published October 5th 2005 by Psychology Press
45. Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation

    Developmental and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Laura Namy

    Series: Emory Cognition Project Series

    Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives is the proceedings of a workshop held at Emory University in 2002 to discuss the difficult and age-old issue of what makes a symbol symbolic. The issue shifts towards exploring the relation between apparent symbolic...

    Published August 11th 2005 by Psychology Press
46. The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

    Edited by Janis E. Jacobs, Paul A. Klaczynski

    In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...

    Published May 30th 2005 by Psychology Press
47. A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

    By Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz

    A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first decade and what has been learned about brain growth. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience...

    Published May 19th 2005 by Psychology Press
48. Action As An Organizer of Learning and Development

    Volume 33 in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology Series

    Edited by John J. Rieser, Jeffrey J. Lockman, Charles A. Nelson

    Series: Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series

    This is the 33rd volume in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in October 2002. The symposium was held to honor the scientific and mentoring contributions of Anne Danielson Pick and Herbert L. Pick, Jr.--two longtime and beloved professors of the Institute of Child Development. It...

    Published April 25th 2005 by Psychology Press
49. Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

    Edited by Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, David H. Rakison

    Series: Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series

    The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related...

    Published March 1st 2005 by Psychology Press
50. Children's Understanding of Society

    Edited by Martyn Barrett, Eithne Buchanan-Barrow

    Series: Studies in Developmental Psychology

    A state-of-the-art review of the research in this area, this collection covers children's understanding of family, school, economics, race, politics and gender roles. Recent changes and trends in research are summarised. This is explained in terms of a progression from the Piagetian stages model of...

    Published December 9th 2004 by Psychology Press