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Spring, 2009: |
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Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:50 pm - - - - - - Room 342E Baker Hall
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| The 2009 bibliography for Cognitive Development is listed below. You can download a pdf file of each reading by clicking on the appropriate link. Click here for a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader if you do not already have this. | |
| Textbook: | Siegler, R. S. & Alibali, M. W. (2004). Children's thinking, 4th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. |
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Perceptual Development:
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Langlois, J. H.,Roggman, L. A., & Rieser-Donner, L. A. (1990). Infants differential social responses to attractive and unattractive faces. Developmental Psychology, 26, 153-159.
Adolph, K. E., & Berger, S. E. (2006). Motor Development. In W. Damon & R. Lerner (Series Eds.) & D. Kuhn & R. S. Siegler (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol 2: Cognition, perception, and language (6th ed., pp. 161-213). New York: Wiley. (Read pp. 161-171.) Lynch, M. P., Eilers, R. E., Oller, D. K., & Urbano, R. C. (1990). Innateness, experience, and music perception. Psychological Science, 1, 272-276. |
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Language Development:
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Johnson, J. S., & Newport, E. L. (1989). Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 60-99. Smith, L. B., Jones, S. S., Landau, B., Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Samuelson, L. (2002). Object name learning provides on-the-job training for attention. Psychological Science, 13, 13-19. |
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Conceptual Development:
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Tager-Flusberg, H. (2007). Evaluating the theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 311-315.
Taylor, M. (1999). Introduction; Chapters 1-4 (pp. 3-85). Imaginary companions and the children who create them. New York: Oxford University Press. |
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Problem Solving:
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Gauvain, M. (2001). Chapter 6: Solving and learning to solve problems in social context (pp. 137-171). The social context of cognitive development. New York: Guilford Press. Goldin-Meadow, (2001).Giving the mind a hand: The role of gesture in cognitive change. In J. L McClelland, & R. S. Siegler, (Eds.), Mechanisms of cognitive development: Behavioral and neural perspectives (pp. 5-31). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (You will need to rotate this pdf counterclockwise.) DeLoache, J. S.. (2006). Mindful of symbols. Scientific American: Child Development Reader (pp. 38-43). New York: Scientific American/Worth. |
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Academic Skills:
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Brown, A. L. (1997). Transforming schools into communities of thinking and learing about serious matters. American Psychologist, 52, 399-413. Ramani, G. B., & Siegler, R. S. (2008). Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children's numerical knowledge through playing number board games. Child Development, 79, 375-394. The National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008). Foundations for success: Reports of the task groups and subcommittees. Chapter 4: Report of the Task Group on Learning Processes, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education. (Just read pp. 4.1-4.24). |
| Conculsions & Challenges: |
Kagan, J. (2008). In defense of qualitative changes in development. Child Development, 79, 1606-1624 (Just read pp. 1606-1612 and pp.1619-1620.) |
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