Wie lernen Menschen und wie kann man ihnen dabei helfen? In diesem Lehrbuch werden
Theorien und sie stützende empirische Befunde dargestellt, auf deren Grundlage …

The possibility that infants' and young children's immature behaviors and cognitions are
sometimes adaptive is explored and interpreted in terms of evolutionary theory. It is argued …

Utilization deficiencies occur when children experience little or no benefit in task
performance from the use of a strategy. Miller and Seier (1994) found evidence for utilization …

Prior education studies have consistently emphasized the importance of sustained and
active student engagement to aid academic performance and achievement of learning …

This research examined how motivation (perceived control, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic
motivation), cognitive learning strategies (deep and surface strategies), and intelligence …

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 …

How do children acquire the vast array of concepts, strategies, and skills that distinguish the
thinking of infants and toddlers from that of preschoolers, older children, and adolescents? In …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the role of cognitive and motivational factors and
the development of academic self-regulation. The development of the capability to self …

A century of research on the development of walking has examined periodic gait over a
straight, uniform path. The current study provides the first corpus of natural infant locomotion …

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 …