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The possibility that infants' and young children's immature behaviors and cognitions are
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Piaget's cognitive-stage theory and the neo-piagetians-Freud's and erikson's psychoanalytic
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Metacognition is the first textbook to focus on people's extraordinary ability to evaluate and
control their cognitive processes. This comprehensive text covers both theoretical and …

Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, Seventh Edition by
David Bjorklund remains the most comprehensive and current topical textbook available in …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in
childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

Can susceptibility to false memory and suggestion increase dramatically with age? The
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