Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Cognitive Processes (eBook)

Editor-in-Chief Richard M. Lerner, PhD is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University. He is the author of many publications, including Pathways to Positive Development about Diverse Youth and New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research (Jossey-Bass). Dr Lerner is also a past editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence and The Handbook of Life-Span Development (Wiley).

Foreword to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Seventh Edition v

Preface xiii

Volume 2 Preface xxi

Contributors xxiii

1 REFLECTIONS ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1
Lynn S. Liben and Ulrich Müller

2 BRAIN AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 9
Joan Stiles, Timothy T. Brown, Frank Haist, and Terry L. Jernigan

3 PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT 63
Scott P. Johnson and Erin E. Hannon

4 MOTOR DEVELOPMENT 113
Karen E. Adolph and Scott R. Robinson

5 ATTENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT 158
Jelena Ristic and James T. Enns

6 MEMORY DEVELOPMENT 203
Mark L. Howe

7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION 250
Tara Callaghan and John Corbit

8 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 296
Brian MacWhinney

9 GESTURE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 339
Susan Goldin-Meadow

10 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING 381
Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis

11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLAY 425
Angeline S. Lillard

12 CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT 469
Vladimir Sloutsky

13 THE DEVELOPMENT OF REASONING 519
Robert B. Ricco

14 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION 571
Ulrich Müller and Kimberly Kerns

15 THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPORAL COGNITION 624
Teresa McCormack

16 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING 671
Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble

17 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING 715
Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant

18 LITERACY DEVELOPMENT 763
Christopher J. Lonigan

19 GENDER AND SOCIAL-COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 806
Campbell Leaper

20 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE 854
Mary Gauvain and Susan Perez

21 ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT 897
Constance Milbrath, Gary E. McPherson, and Margaret S. Osborne

22 MEDIA AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 949
Daniel R. Anderson and Heather L. Kirkorian

23 ATYPICAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 995
Bruce F. Pennington

Author Index 1043

Subject Index 1083

"There is a palpable sense of excitement from the editors of each volume that this is a critical period in the development of the field. The four volumes are edited by leading scholars in the field, who have carefully selected the volumes' contributing authors for their ability to summarise their topics succinctly, and tease out the issues that are likely to be the focus of research in the coming period. As with previous editions, this new edition of the Handbook will be a lodestar for practitioners and researchers in the field."
--Diane FitzMaurice, Library Information Supervisor, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge