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Section I Piagetian Approach: The Preoperational Child
  1. Advances in Preoperational Thought
    1. The Symbolic Function
    2. Early Symbolic Development and Spatial Thinking
    3. Causality
    4. Understanding of Identities and Categorization
    5. Number
  2. Immature Aspects of Preoperational Thought
    1. Conservation
    2. Egocentrism
  3. Do Young Children Have Theories of Mind?
    1. Knowledge about Thinking
    2. Social Cognition
    3. False Beliefs and Deception
    4. Distinguishing between Appearance and Reality
    5. Distinguishing between Fantasy and Reality
    6. Influences on Theory-of-Mind Development
Section II Language Development
  1. Vocabulary
  2. Grammar and Syntax
  3. Pragmatics and Social Speech
  4. Private Speech
  5. Delayed Language Development
  6. Social Interaction and Preparation for Literacy
Section III Information-Processing Approach: Memory Development
  1. Recognition and Recall
  2. Forming Childhood Memories
  3. Influences on Autobiographical Memory
  4. Implicit Memory
Section IV Intelligence: Psychometric and Vygotskian Approaches
  1. Traditional Psychometric Measures
  2. Influences on Measured Intelligence
    1. Temperament and Parent-Child Interaction
    2. The Family Environment
  3. Testing and Teaching Based on Vygotsky's Theory
Section V Early Childhood Education
  1. Goals and Types of Preschools: A Cross-Cultural View
  2. Compensatory Preschool Programs
  3. The Transition to Kindergarten





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