The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development

Acknowledgements x
 
List of Contributors xi
 
Introduction 1
 
Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development 5
 
1 How Do Infants Reason About Physical Events? 11
Renée Baillargeon, Jie Li, Yael Gertner, and Di Wu
 
2 Social Cognition and the Origins of Imitation, Empathy, and Theory of Mind 49
Andrew N. Meltzoff
 
3 Kinds of Agents: The Origins of Understanding Instrumental and Communicative Agency 76
György Gergely
 
4 Social Cognition and Social Motivations in Infancy 106
Malinda Carpenter
 
5 Born to Categorize 129
Paul C. Quinn
 
6 Early Memory Development 153
Patricia J. Bauer, Marina Larkina, and Joanne Deocampo
 
7 Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything Had a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought 180
Sandra R. Waxman and Erin M. Leddon
 
Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 209
 
8 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction 213
John E. Opfer and Susan A. Gelman
 
9 Language Development 239
Michael Tomasello
 
10 Developing a Theory of Mind 258
Henry M. Wellman
 
11 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development 285
Angeline Lillard, Ashley M. Pinkham, and Eric Smith
 
12 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic Artifacts 312
Judy S. DeLoache
 
Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood 337
 
13 Memory Development in Childhood 347
Wolfgang Schneider
 
14 Causal Reasoning and Explanation 377
Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick
 
15 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 399
Usha Goswami
 
16 The Development of Moral Reasoning 420
Larry P. Nucci and Matthew Gingo
 
17 Spatial Development: Evolving Approaches to Enduring Questions 446
Lynn S. Liben and Adam E. Christensen
 
18 Children's Intuitive Physics 473
Friedrich Wilkening and Trix Cacchione
 
19 What is Scientific Thinking and How Does it Develop?

Usha Goswami is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is also Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, which carries out research into the brain basis of literacy, numeracy, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. Dr Goswami has received numerous awards for her work, including the British Psychology Society Spearman Medal, the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize for Dyslexia research, and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust in the United Kingdom, the National Academy of Education in the United States, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

"All these will find the material in this new companion topical and challenging . . The essays are provided with generous and well-chosen lists of further reading, and many of the works will or should be in any well-stocked academic or research library". (Reference Reviews, 2011) "This is an authoritative, comprehensive and cutting-edge account of psychological theory and research on children's cognitive development from infants to early adolescence. Written by a cast of world leading academics, this handbook provides a single volume resource that covers all the major topics...This second edition reflects the significant developments within the field arising from the latest cognitive neuropsychological research...This handbook brings together such a wealth of material to constitute possibly the single best reference book in its subject area and, as such, should serve as a key text for advanced students, researchers and practitioners." (The Psychologist, May 2011) "Overall, the handbook is a thoughtful and valuable reference work, to which users can refer for an impressive range of research." (Julia Carroll, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44:6) "Though the structure of this book is similar to other volumes in the series, I welcome it with even greater enthusiasm than the rest. While they all summarise and review the latest scientific research in their particular area of child development, research in the field of infant cognition has, in the last few years, completely overturned all previous conceptions. This volume, therefore, not only summarises and updates the literature in its field, but also replaces much of it ... at the moment this book series is the cutting edge ... As with other volumes in the series, all libraries serving postgraduate level studies in psychology and related disciplines should seriously consider acquisition." (Martin Guha, Librarian, Institute of Psychiatry, Reference Reviews, 17 February 2003) "Summing up: Highly recommended.

"All these will find the material in this new companion topical and challenging . . The essays are provided with generous and well-chosen lists of further reading, and many of the works will or should be in any well-stocked academic or research library". (Reference Reviews, 2011)
 
"This is an authoritative, comprehensive and cutting-edge account of psychological theory and research on children's cognitive development from infants to early adolescence. Written by a cast of world leading academics, this handbook provides a single volume resource that covers all the major topics...This second edition reflects the significant developments within the field arising from the latest cognitive neuropsychological research...This handbook brings together such a wealth of material to constitute possibly the single best reference book in its subject area and, as such, should serve as a key text for advanced students, researchers and practitioners." (The Psychologist, May 2011)
 
"Overall, the handbook is a thoughtful and valuable reference work, to which users can refer for an impressive range of research." (Julia Carroll, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44:6)
 
"Though the structure of this book is similar to other volumes in the series, I welcome it with even greater enthusiasm than the rest. While they all summarise and review the latest scientific research in their particular area of child development, research in the field of infant cognition has, in the last few years, completely overturned all previous conceptions. This volume, therefore, not only summarises and updates the literature in its field, but also replaces much of it ... at the moment this book series is the cutting edge ... As with other volumes in the series, all libraries serving postgraduate level studies in psychology and related disciplines should seriously consider acquisition." (Martin Guha, Librarian, Institute of Psychiatry, Reference Reviews, 17 February