The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook has long been considered the definitive guide to the field of developmental science. Volume 2: Cognitive Processes describes cognitive development as a relational phenomenon that can be studied only as part of a larger whole of the person and context relational system that sustains it. In this volume, specific domains of cognitive development are contextualized with respect to biological processes and sociocultural contexts. Furthermore, key themes and issues (e.g., the importance of symbolic systems and social understanding) are threaded across multiple chapters, although every each chapter is focused on a different domain within cognitive development. Thus, both within and across chapters, the complexity and interconnectivity of cognitive development are well illuminated. Learn about the inextricable intertwining of perceptual development, motor development, emotional development, and brain development Understand the complexity of cognitive development without misleading simplification, reducing cognitive development to its biological substrates, or viewing it as a passive socialization process Discover how each portion of the developmental process contributes to subsequent cognitive development Examine the multiple processes such as categorizing, reasoning, thinking, decision making and judgment that comprise cognition The scholarship within this volume and, as well, across the four volumes of this edition, illustrate that developmental science is in the midst of a very exciting period. There is a paradigm shift that involves increasingly greater understanding of how to describe, explain, and optimize the course of human life for diverse individuals living within diverse contexts. This Handbook is the definitive reference for educators, policy-makers, researchers, students, and practitioners in human development, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and neuroscience.

The essential reference for human development theory, updatedand reconceptualizedThe Handbook of Child Psychology and DevelopmentalScience, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work towhich all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now inits Seventh Edition, the Handbook has long been consideredthe definitive guide to the field of developmental science.Volume 2: Cognitive Processes describes cognitivedevelopment as a relational phenomenon that can be studied only aspart of a larger whole of the person and context relational systemthat sustains it. In this volume, specific domains of cognitivedevelopment are contextualized with respect to biological processesand sociocultural contexts. Furthermore, key themes and issues(e.g., the importance of symbolic systems and social understanding)are threaded across multiple chapters, although every each chapteris focused on a different domain within cognitive development.Thus, both within and across chapters, the complexity andinterconnectivity of cognitive development are wellilluminated.* Learn about the inextricable intertwining of perceptualdevelopment, motor development, emotional development, and braindevelopment* Understand the complexity of cognitive development withoutmisleading simplification, reducing cognitive development to itsbiological substrates, or viewing it as a passive socializationprocess* Discover how each portion of the developmental processcontributes to subsequent cognitive development* Examine the multiple processes - such as categorizingreasoning, thinking, decision making and judgment - thatcomprise cognitionThe scholarship within this volume and, as well, across the fourvolumes of this edition, illustrate that developmental science isin the midst of a very exciting period. There is a paradigm shiftthat involves increasingly greater understanding of how todescribe, explain, and optimize the course of human life fordiverse individuals living within diverse contexts. ThisHandbook is the definitive reference for educatorspolicy-makers, researchers, students, and practitioners in humandevelopment, psychology, sociology, anthropology, andneuroscience.

Foreword to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Seventh Edition vPreface xiiiVolume 2 Preface xxiContributors xxiii1 REFLECTIONS ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1Lynn S. Liben and Ulrich Müller2 BRAIN AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 9Joan Stiles, Timothy T. Brown, Frank Haist, and Terry L. Jernigan3 PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT 63Scott P. Johnson and Erin E. Hannon4 MOTOR DEVELOPMENT 113Karen E. Adolph and Scott R. Robinson5 ATTENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT 158Jelena Ristic and James T. Enns6 MEMORY DEVELOPMENT 203Mark L. Howe7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION 250Tara Callaghan and John Corbit8 LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 296Brian MacWhinney9 GESTURE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 339Susan Goldin-Meadow10 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING 381Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis11 THE DEVELOPMENT OF PLAY 425Angeline S. Lillard12 CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT 469Vladimir Sloutsky13 THE DEVELOPMENT OF REASONING 519Robert B. Ricco14 THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION 571Ulrich Müller and Kimberly Kerns15 THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEMPORAL COGNITION 624Teresa McCormack16 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING 671Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble17 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING 715Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant18 LITERACY DEVELOPMENT 763Christopher J. Lonigan19 GENDER AND SOCIAL-COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 806Campbell Leaper20 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE 854Mary Gauvain and Susan Perez21 ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT 897Constance Milbrath, Gary E. McPherson, and Margaret S. Osborne22 MEDIA AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 949Daniel R. Anderson and Heather L. Kirkorian23 ATYPICAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 995Bruce F. PenningtonAuthor Index 1043Subject Index 1083