In this article, existing research investigating how school performance relates to cognitive,
self-awareness, language, and personality processes is reviewed. We outline the …

We summarize and integrate research on cognitive vulnerability to depression among
children and adolescents. We first review prospective longitudinal studies of the most …

Piaget's cognitive-stage theory and the neo-piagetians-Freud's and erikson's psychoanalytic
theories-Social learning theory-Information-processing theory-Ethology and other …

Human activity is both organized and variable, dynamically changing in principled ways.
Children and adults are flexible and inventive in their action and thought, adapting old ideas …

This handbook focuses on the thinking processes necessary for learning. It provides
descriptions and evaluations of 42 major frameworks including Bloom¿ s taxonomy, de …

In this volume, two scholars with different but complementary interests in memory and
cognitive development present a careful overview of the field of memory development from …

Written by experienced teachers and educational researchers Phillip Adey and Michael
Shayer, Really Raising Standards analyses attempts to teach children to think more …

In this Monograph, we present a new theory of children's conceptual development and the
empirical research on which that theory is based. The main construct in the theory is the …

Metacognition essentially means cognition about cognition. It refers to both people's
awareness and control, not only of their cognitive processes, but of their emotions and …

In this Monograph, knowledge acquisition is examined as a process involving the
coordination of existing theories with new evidence. Although researchers studying …