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Piagetian Approach: The Concrete Operational Child
Cognitive Advances
Influences of Neurological Development and Schooling
Moral Reasoning

Information-Processing Approach: Attention, Memory, and Planning
How Do Executive Skills Develop?
Selective Attention
Working Memory
Metamemory: Understanding Memory
Mnemonics: Strategies for Remembering
Information Processing and Piagetian Tasks

Psychometric Approach: Assessment of Intelligence
The IQ Controversy
Influences on Intelligence
Is There More Than One Intelligence?
Other Directions in Intelligence Testing

Language and Literacy
Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax
Pragmatics: Knowledge about Communication
Second-Language Learning
Literacy

The Child in School
Entering First Grade
Influences on School Achievement

Educating Children with Special Needs
Children with Learning Problems
Gifted Children

Summary and Key Terms

Boxes
13-1 The Research World: The Homework Debate
13-2 The Everyday World: The Math Wars







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