Cognitive Development from a Strategy Perspective

Patrick Lemaire is a Professor of Psychology at Aix-Marseille University. He is also a member of the prestigious Institut Universitaire de France and has over 140 publications in cognitive and developmental psychology.

Preface, Chapter 1: A European Perspective on Robert Siegler’s Contribution, Section 1: Strategic Aspects of Cognitive Development, Chapter 2: Strategy choices in Siegler’s Research: How did Bob decide what to do? Chapter 3: Lifespan cognitive development: The role of strategies, Chapter 4: Multiple Partners, Multiple Strategies, Multiple Causes: Understanding Why Men and Women Provide Discrepant Sex Partner Reports, Chapter 5: When Worlds Unite: Role of Social Interactions in Children's Mathematical Development Section 2: Conceptual Development: The Cases of Numerical Cognition and Relational Thinking, Chapter 6: The microgenetic approach in the digitalised era, Chapter 7: Associations of Magnitude Comparison and Number Line Estimation with Mathematical Competence: A Comparative Review, Chapter 8: Difficulty in Understanding Rational Numbers and Potential Solutions, Chapter 9: Development of Relational Thinking: An Information-Processing Perspective, Section 3: Improving Education, Chapter 10: Translating Knowledge of Children’s Thinking to Improve Education, Chapter 11: The effects of retrieval practice on fraction arithmetic knowledge, Chapter 12: Studying the understanding of arithmetic with rational numbers. Chapter 13: Correlational data analysis in cognitive development: The primacy of risky tests, Chapter 14: The Master of Clarity and Precision, Chapter 15: Concluding Words: The Best Job in the World, PostFace: Through the eyes of children: A microgenetic perspective on Robert Siegler