Usha Goswami 
Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development 

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cognitive development.

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Tabela de Conteúdo

Acknowledgments x

List of Contributors xi

Part I Infancy: The Origins of Cognitive Development
1

1 Imitation as a Mechanism of Social Cognition: Origins of
Empathy, Theory of Mind, and the Representation of Action 6

Andrew N. Meltzoff

2 The Development of Understanding Self and Agency 26

György Gergely

3 The Acquisition of Physical Knowledge in Infancy: A Summary in
Eight Lessons 47

Renée Baillargeon

4 Early Categorization: A New Synthesis 84

Paul C. Quinn

5 Early Word-Learning and Conceptual Development: Everything had
a Name, and Each Name Gave Birth to a New Thought 102

Sandra R. Waxman

6 Early Memory Development 127

Patricia J. Bauer

Part II Cognitive Development in Early Childhood 147

7 Development of the Animate-Inanimate Distinction
151

Susan A. Gelman and John E. Opfer

8 Understanding the Psychological World: Developing a Theory of
Mind 167

Henry M. Wellman

9 Pretend Play and Cognitive Development 188

Angeline Lillard

10 Early Development of the Understanding and Use of Symbolic
Artifacts 206

Judy S. De Loache

Part III Topics in Cognitive Development in Childhood
227

11 Memory Development in Childhood 236

Wolfgang Schneider

12 The Development of Causal Reasoning 257

Barbara Koslowski and Amy Masnick

13 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning 282

Usha Goswami

14 The Development of Moral Reasoning 303

Larry P. Nucci

15 Spatial Development in Childhood: Where Are We Now? 326

Lynn S. Liben

16 Children’s Intuitive Physics 349

Friedrich Wilkening and Susanne Huber

17 What is Scientific Thinking, and How Does It Develop?
371

Deanna Kuhn

18 Reading Development and Dyslexia 394

Margaret J. Snowling

19 Children’s Understanding of Mathematics 412

Peter Bryant and Terezhina Nuñes

Part IV Topics in Atypical Cognitive Development 441

20 Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development
445

Philip David Zelazo and Ulrich Müller

21 Language and Cognition: Evidence from Disordered Language
470

Barbara Dodd and Sharon Crosbie

22 The Exact Mind: Empathizing and Systemizing in Autism
Spectrum Conditions 491

Simon Baron-Cohen, Sally Wheelwright, John Lawson, Rick Griffin,
and Jacqueline Hill

Part V Models of Cognitive Development 509

23 Piaget’s Model 515

Leslie Smith

24 Vygotsky’s Model of Cognitive Development 538

Shawn M. Rowe and James V. Wertsch

25 Information-Processing Models of Cognitive Development
555

Graeme S. Halford

26 Modeling Typical and Atypical Cognitive Development:
Computational Constraints on Mechanisms of Change 575

Michael S. C. Thomas and Annette Karmiloff-Smith

27 Individual Differences in Cognitive Development 600

Robert J. Sternberg

References 620

Index 737

Sobre o autor

Usha Goswami is Professor of Education, University of
Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. Prior to
that she was a lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the
University of Cambridge.