Cognition In Children (Developmental Psychology: A Modular Course)

Goswami, Usha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863778240 ISBN 13: 9780863778247

Publisher: Psychology Press, 1998

This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on the question of what develops, rather than on why it develops. The findings of a given experimental study what develops are generally fixed, but the interpretation of what particular findings mean why is fluid. Some of the experiments discussed in this book have alternative explanations, and every student interested in children's cognition is invited to develop their own ideas about what different studies mean.

About the Author:

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.