Progress in understanding cognitive developmental change mechanisms requires methods
that yield detailed data about particular changes. The microgenetic method is an approach …

The notion of general cognitive ability (or 'intelligence') is explored and why the time might
now be ripe for educators to re-consider the power offered by a general intellectual capacity …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …

It [this book] can be used, we believe, in courses designed for students who have had no
prior introduction to psychology. We expect that the book will be used that way in many parts …

Written by experienced teachers and educational researchers Phillip Adey and Michael
Shayer, Really Raising Standards analyses attempts to teach children to think more …

In this Monograph, we present a new theory of children's conceptual development and the
empirical research on which that theory is based. The main construct in the theory is the …

Publisher Summary This chapter proposes a general model of the organization and
development of self-understanding and self-regulation. This model integrates research and …

This" Monograph" aims to contribute to the information processing, the differential, and the
developmental modeling of the mind, and to work these into an integrated theory. Toward …

There have been many interpretations published on the relative importance of the work of
both Vygotsky and Piaget: often to the detriment of the latter. This article represents an …

In an attempt to accelerate the development of formal operations in average young
adolescents, intervention lessons relating to all formal schemata were designed in the …