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A Child's World: Infancy through Adolescence, 9/e
Diane E. Papalia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sally Wendkos Olds
Ruth Duskin Feldman
Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Chapter Outline


Section I Piagetian Approach: The Concrete Operational Child

  1. Cognitive Advances
    1. Space
    2. Causality
    3. Categorization
    4. Conservation
    5. Number an Mathematics
  2. Influences of Neurological Development and Culture
  3. Moral Reasoning

Section II Information-Processing Approach: Memory and Other Processing Skills

  1. Basic Processes and Capacities
  2. Metamemory: Understanding Memory
  3. Mnemonics: Strategies for Remembering
  4. Selective Attention
  5. Information Processing and Piagetian Tasks

Section III Psychometric Approach: Assessment of Intelligence

  1. Traditional Group and Individual Tests
  2. The IQ Controversy
    1. Influence of Schooling
    2. Influence of Ethnicity
    3. Cultural Bias
  3. Is There More Than One Intelligence?
    1. Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
    2. Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence
  4. Alternative Directions in Intelligence Testing

Section IV Language and Literacy

  1. Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax
  2. Pragmatics: Knowledge about Communication
  3. Literacy
    1. Reading
    2. Writing

Section V The Child in School

  1. Entering First Grade
  2. Environmental Influences on School Achievement
    1. The Family
    2. Teacher Expectation
    3. The Educational System
    4. The Culture
  3. Second Language Education
  4. Children with Learning Problems
    1. Mental Retardation
    2. Learning disabilities
    3. Hyperactivity and Attention Deficits
    4. Educating Children with Disabilities
  5. Gifted Children
    1. Identifying Gifted Children
    2. The Lives of Gifted Children
    3. Defining and Measuring Creativity
    4. Educating Gifted, Creative, and Talented Children








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