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The child as thinker : the development and acquisition of cognition in childhood

Title
The child as thinker : the development and acquisition of cognition in childhood / Sara Meadows.
Author
Meadows, Sara.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Description
ix, 473 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Discusses the way children remember and organize information in general, the acquisition of skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic, and the development of more complex reasoning as children grow to maturity. Also reviews some of the main areas relevant to individual differences in normal cognitive development, and examines three major models of cognitive developemnt.
Subject
  • Cognition in children
  • Human information processing in children
  • Cognition
  • Children
  • Child development
  • Infants
  • Cognition
  • Child
  • Child Development
  • Infant
  • cognition
  • children (people by age group)
  • infants
  • Infants
  • Children
  • Child development
  • Cognition in children
  • Human information processing in children
  • Kind
  • Kognitive Entwicklung
  • Cognitieve ontwikkeling
  • Kinderen
  • Psicologia cognitiva
  • Desenvolvimento cognitivo
  • Psicologia do desenvolvimento
  • Cognition chez l'enfant
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography (p. [369]-450) and index.
Contents
Descriptive studies of children's cognitive skills and knowledge -- Individual differences in cognitive development -- Models of cognition in childhood : metaphors, achievements and problems -- Causes of change and variation in cognitive development -- Questions, problems--and possibilities.
ISBN
  • 0415011426
  • 9780415011426
  • 0415011434
  • 9780415011433
  • 9780203134009 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 92040457
  • 34227820
OCLC
  • ocm27034439
  • 27034439
  • SCSB-1997276
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library