Piagetian Approach: The Preoperational Child
Advances of Preoperational Thought
Immature Aspects of Preoperational Thought
Do Young Children Have Theories of Mind?
Information-Processing Approach: Memory Development
Basic Processes and Capacities
Recognition and Recall
Forming and Retaining Childhood Memories
Intelligence: Psychometric and Vygotskian Approaches
Traditional Psychometric Measures
Influences on Measured Intelligence
Testing and Teaching Based on Vygotsky’s Theory
Language Development
Vocabulary
Grammar and Syntax
Pragmatics and Social Speech
Delayed Language Development
Preparation for Literacy
Media and Cognition
Early Childhood Education
Types of Preschools
Compensatory Preschool Programs
The School of the Twenty-First Century: Universal Preschool
The Child in Kindergarten
Summary and Key Terms
Boxes
10-1 The Everyday World: Imaginary Companions
10-2 The Research World: Private Speech: Piaget versus Vygotsky
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