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Carver, Sharon M., Ed.; Shrager, Jeff, Ed. – APA Books, 2012
The impulse to investigate the natural world is deeply rooted in our earliest childhood experiences. This notion has long guided researchers to uncover the cognitive mechanisms underlying the development of scientific reasoning in children. Until recently, however, research in cognitive development and education followed largely independent…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Science Education
Hartung, Paul J.; Porfeli, Erik J.; Vondracek, Fred W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
Childhood marks the dawn of human development. To organize, integrate, and advance knowledge about vocational development during this age period from a life-span perspective, we conducted a comprehensive review of the empirical vocational development literature that addresses early-to-late childhood. The review considers career exploration, career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Children, Child Development, Vocational Interests

Wellman, Henry M.; Estes, David – Child Development, 1986
Describes three studies that examined how young children distinguish between the real, physical world and the mental world; between objects and thoughts; and between doing something and imagining it. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Santmire, Toni E. – 1984
To discover the relationship between cognitive development and writing, a means of assessing writing is needed that reflects accurately changes in the way children write as they grow older. This may be accomplished by using Piaget's characteristics of concrete and formal operations. His framework permits general descriptions of thinking, organized…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – 1997
This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development: the idea that very young children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of their knowledge. These restructurings are analogous to theory changes. The children's early semantic development is closely tied…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Children, Classification