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Tables of Contents for Growing Minds
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
x
Acknowledgements
xi
Studying How Minds Grow
1
6
The problem of development
1
2
Methods for research
3
1
About this book
4
3
Infant Minds
7
35
The physiology of intelligence
7
7
Prenatal development of the brain
8
3
Postnatal development of the brain
11
3
Are babies `blank slates'?
14
6
Piaget's theory
15
3
Gibson's theory
18
2
Studying baby minds
20
4
Observation studies
20
1
Habituation studies
21
1
Studies of brain activity
22
2
Infant minds: current research
24
16
Understanding objects
24
8
Understanding people
32
8
In summary
40
1
Exercises
41
1
Suggested reading
41
1
Language, Communication and Sharing Experience
42
32
The nature of language
42
3
Studying child language
45
2
Controversy and certainty in child language research
47
1
Does language grow out of the child's general intellectual development?
48
5
Piaget's theory
48
1
Language from meaning
49
4
Are we innately programmed to learn language?
53
4
The problem of grammar
54
2
Chomsky's theory
56
1
Do children construct language for themselves?
57
2
Learning to talk through social interactions
59
1
Correction and self-correction in learning language
60
3
Communicating with language and theories of mind
63
8
Measuring children's understanding of mental states
64
2
Developing a theory of mind
66
4
Theories of mind, communication and talking
70
1
Talking to oneself
70
1
In summary
71
2
Exercises
73
1
Suggested reading
73
1
Reasoning and Remembering
74
30
The development of memory
74
10
Knowledge and recall
76
1
Deliberate and incidental recall
77
5
Does the basic capacity of memory change in childhood?
82
2
The development of reasoning
84
2
The nature of logic
86
1
Piaget's theory of the development of reasoning
87
15
Evaluating Piaget's theory
92
3
Is human reasoning logical?
95
1
Mental models and human reasoning
95
3
Developmental change and mental models
98
1
Understanding logical necessity
99
1
Literacy, formal schooling and the development of logical reasoning
100
2
In summary
102
1
Exercises
102
1
Suggested reading
102
2
Conceptual Development and Reasoning: a New View
104
22
Perception, memory and reasoning
105
6
Heuristic reasoning from perception and memory
106
3
The development of heuristic reasoning
109
2
Knowledge and reasoning
111
7
Studying the content of children's knowledge
111
1
Information and the construction of strategies
112
3
Conceptual change and mental tools
115
3
Novices, experts and domain specific knowledge
118
5
Knowledge and analogy
120
3
In summary
123
2
Exercises
125
1
Suggested reading
125
1
Planning and Problem Solving
126
25
Planning in problem solving
126
7
Strategies in planning
127
4
Plans, subgoals and knowledge
131
2
A more detailed look at the development of problem solving
133
14
Microgenetic methods for studying the development of problem solving
133
2
Strategy choice and developmental change
135
4
The genesis of new strategies
139
8
In summary
147
3
Exercises
150
1
Suggested reading
150
1
What Drives Development?
151
27
Biology, evolution and the origins of intelligence
151
8
A genetic blueprint for the mind
152
1
The structure of the mind: general and domain specific processes
153
2
Epigenesis
155
1
Intelligence and survival
155
2
Evolutionary pressure, ecology and the scope of intelligence
157
2
The social bases of intelligence
159
7
Knowledge and skill as social constructions
159
3
Learning from watching and collaborating
162
1
Learning from apprenticeship
163
3
Culture and the pace of development
166
3
Minds and bodies in interaction with the world
169
4
Mental mechanisms for development
171
1
Development in physical context
172
1
An integrated model of intellectual development
173
3
Dynamic systems theory
174
2
Is there a limit to the development of human intelligence?
176
1
In summary
177
1
Exercises
177
1
Suggested reading
177
1
Individual Differences
178
32
Genetic differences and the IQ debate
178
14
Psychometric concepts of intelligence
179
1
Does general intelligence exist?
180
1
Testing mental power
181
2
Individual variation in intelligence and genetics
183
2
Does intelligence develop through childhood?
185
2
Predicting future performance from measures of IQ
187
1
Intelligence as an explanation of individual differences
188
2
Modern psychometric measures of individual differences
190
1
Psychometrics and creativity
191
1
Process accounts of individual differences
192
7
Evolution and individual differences
192
2
Social factors in individual differences
194
2
Cognitive processing and individual differences
196
2
A footnote on intelligence and creativity as cognitive processes
198
1
Developing differently
199
9
Diagnosing developmental abnormalities
199
1
Delayed development
199
5
Different development
204
3
Lessons from abnormal development
207
1
In summary
208
1
Exercises
209
1
Suggested reading
209
1
Conclusions and Overview
210
9
Piaget and the study of development
210
1
Taking biology seriously
211
3
The structure of the mind
214
1
The social bases of knowledge
215
1
Cognition and meta-cognition
216
1
Methodology and theoretical advance
217
1
Suggested reading
218
1
References
219
19
Index
238