Cognitive Perspectives on Children's Social and Behavioral Development

Marion Perlmutter, The University of Michigan

1. Social-Cognitive and Social Behavioral Perspectives on Problem Solving 2. Comments on Rubin and Krasnor: Solutions and Problems in Research on Problem Solving 3. A Social Information Processing Model of Social Competence in Children 4. Needed Steps for Social Competence: Strengths and Present Limitations of Dodge’s Model 5. Becoming a Different Person: Transformations in Personality and Social Behavior 6. Lumping and Splitting in Developmental Theory: Comments on Fischer and Elmendorf 7. Children’s Comments about their Friendships 8. Comments on Berndt: Children’s Comments About Their Friendships References 9. Understanding the Developing Understanding of Control 10. Comments on Weisz: “ Understanding the Developing 11. Adult Social Cognition: Implications of Parents’ Ideas for Approaches to Development 12. Comments on Goodnow, Knight, and Cashmore: A Family Perspective on Cognition and Change