The Child as Thinker: The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in ChildhoodDiscusses 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Descriptive studies of childrens cognitive skills and knowledge | 5 |
READING | 6 |
Development in reading processes | 10 |
Learning to read in a literate environment | 15 |
Skills and stages in learning to read | 17 |
The teaching of reading | 21 |
Understanding what you read | 22 |
Developmental changes in knowledge? | 60 |
Summary | 62 |
Memory for events in childhood | 63 |
CHILDRENS REASONING | 67 |
Childrens analogical reasoning | 69 |
CHILDRENS USE OF METAPHORS | 74 |
METACOGNITION | 78 |
TRANSFER | 81 |
Understanding the structure of a text | 24 |
WRITING | 27 |
Maths | 35 |
MEMORY | 49 |
Developmental changes in basic memory capacities? | 50 |
Developmental changes in memory strategies? | 54 |
metamemory? | 57 |
PROBLEMSOLVING | 87 |
CHILDRENS MUSICAL COGNITION | 92 |
CHILDRENS DRAWINGS | 94 |
CHILDRENS SPATIAL COGNITION | 97 |
CHILDRENS USE OF CONCEPTS | 101 |
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The Child as Thinker: The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood Sara Meadows No preview available - 1993 |
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