TY - BOOK AU - Siegler,Robert S. AU - Alibali,Martha Wagner TI - Children's thinking SN - 9780131113848 U1 - 155.413 SIE PY - 2005/// CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J PB - Pearson Education/Prentice Hall KW - Cognition in children KW - Textbooks KW - Cognition KW - Thinking N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - For one-semester undergraduate courses in cognitive development, developmental psychology, and child development. Also appropriate for use in graduate development seminars. This book offers a unified account of the major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence; and also considers their practical implications. It examines the change processes through which development occurs, as well as the nature of the changes in language, perception, memory, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving that mark cognitive development. Eight central themes presented in the first chapter integrate and unify the presentation ER -