The Development of Children's Thinking offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction to several core areas of developmental psychology. It examines recent empirical research within the context of longstanding theoretical debates. In particular, it shows how a grasp of classic theories within developmental psychology is vital for a grasp of new areas of research such as cognitive neuroscience that have impacted on our understanding of how children develop.
The focus of this book will be on infancy and childhood, and it looks at:
- Theories and context of development
- How developmental psychology attempts to reconcile influences of nature and nurture
- Communication in infancy as a precursor to later thinking
- Language development in primates and young children
- Cognitive and social development, including the child's understanding of the mind
- How studies of moral reasoning reflect upon our understanding of development
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Jeremy Carpendale
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale is Professor of Developmental Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published in the areas of cognitive, social cognitive, and moral development. His work focuses on the nature and development of thinking about social and moral matters and the role of language and social interaction in such development. He is author of How Children Develop Social Understanding (2006 with C. Lewis). He is an editor of several books, including Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development (2008 with U. Müller, N. Budwig, & B. Sokol), The Cambridge Companion to Piaget (2009 with U. Müller & L. Smith), and Self- and Social-Regulation: Social interaction and the development of social understanding and executive functions (2010 with B. Sokol, U. Müller, A. Young, & G. Iarocci).
Inhalt
Chapter I: Introduction: What is Human Thinking and How Does it Develop?
Chapter 2: Constructivist Approaches to Cognitive Development
Chapter 3: Sociocultural Approaches to Cognitive Development
Chapter 4: Information Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development
Chapter 5: Biological Approaches to Cognitive Development
Chapter 6: Infant Social Cognitive Development: Learning to Mean
Chapter 7: Meaning in Humans and Other Animals: How do Words Work?
Chapter 8: Evaluating Theories of Language
Chapter 9: Concepts, Memory and Problem Solving/Reasoning
Chapter 10: Self-regulation and Executive Function
Chapter 11: The Development of Social Understanding
Chapter 12: Social interaction, Language, and Social Understanding
Chapter 13: Moral development: Piaget and Kohlberg's Theories
Chapter 14: Recent Approaches to Moral Development: Moral Babies and the Neuroscience of Morality