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Spring, 2008: |
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Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:50 pm - - - - - - Room 340J Baker Hall
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| The 2008 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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Tomasello, M.(2006). Acquiring linguistic constructions. 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. 253-298). New York: Wiley. (Read pp. 255-265 and pp. 285-291.)
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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Keil, F. C. (2006). Cognitive science and cognitive 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. 609-635). New York: Wiley. (Read pp. 609-619 and pp. 619-629.).
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. (in press). Promoting broad and stable improvements in low-income children's numerical knowledge through playing number board games. Child Development. Click here for body of manuscript. Click here for end material. Rayner, K., Foorman, B. R., Perfetti, C. A., Pesetsky, D., & Seidenberg, M.S. (2001). How psychological science informs the teaching of reading. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2, pp. 31-74. Note: You don't need to read the entire article: the assigned reading is only pp. 55-68. These are the only pages included in the pdf file. |
| Conculsions & Challenges: |
Pfeifer, J. H., Brown, C. S., & Juvonen, J. (2007). Prejudice reduction in schools. Teaching tolerance in schools: Lessons learned since Brown v. Board of Education about the development and reduction of children's prejudice. Social Policy Report, XXI, No. 11. |
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