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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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