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Children's Thinking, 4th Edition

Martha W. Alibali, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

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For one-semester undergraduate courses in cognitive development, developmental psychology, and child development. Also appropriate for use in graduate development seminars.

This book offers a unified account of the major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence; and also considers their practical implications. It examines the change processes through which development occurs, as well as the nature of the changes in language, perception, memory, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving that mark cognitive development. Eight central themes presented in the first chapter integrate and unify the presentation.

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NEW - Sociocultural theories chapter added.
- Provides students and instructors with the most current and relevant information.

NEW - Social cognition chapter added.
- Provides thorough coverage of this rapidly-growing area.

Important new discoveries in the relation between brain development and cognitive development highlighted.
- Broadens students knowledge with the most current findings on the connection between drain development and cognitive development.

Major theories of cognitive development—Piaget; neo- Piagetian; information-processing; sociocultural; theory-theory; connectionist; multiple intelligences.
- Provides students with a complete analysis of common theories so that they can evaluate thinking from different perspectives.

Children's eyewitness testimony—Including current research on eliciting accurate testimony from young children; influences on whether their testimony will be accurate.
- Provides students with techniques for eliciting accurate recollection of events from children, methods for diagnosing perceptual problems.

How children learn reading, writing, and mathematical skills—Includes details on the learning abilities of blind, deaf, gifted, and retarded children.
- Provides students with a careful examination of how children learn and techniques for improving reading, writing and mathematical skills.

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