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 …

Anyone sufficiently motivated to take an undergraduate or graduate course in this area
should find [in this book] a great deal to intrigue the imagination and stimulate further interest …

The third edition of Life Span Human Development helps students gain a deeper
understanding of the many interacting forces affecting development from infancy, childhood …

Microgenetic methods are useful for many purposes. They can yield more precise
descriptions of cognitive change than would otherwise be possible, can reveal both …

The concept of metacognition refers to one's knowledge and control of one's own cognitive
system. However, despite being widely used, this concept is confusing because of several …

Since the original publication of Traumatic Brain Injury: Methods for Clinical & Forensic
Neuropsychiatric Assessment, enhanced clinical findings concerning traumatic brain injury …

Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young examines the nature of childhood through an
evolutionary lens and argues that childhood is an essential stage of development with its …

Strategic development is more diverse, multifaceted and eventful than previously realized.
Individual children know and use multiple strategies for solving a given kind of problem; they …

Abstract Second-, 3rd-, and 4th-grade children were given 5 sort-recall trials with different
sets of categorizable items. The authors assessed multiple-strategy use on each trial and …