The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to the growing body of research on
the development of scientific reasoning skills. The focus is on the reasoning and problem …

The challenge for students of cognitive development is to characterize how our young
accomplish the task of acquiring concepts they come to share with others and communicate …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

The critical thinking movement, it is suggested, has much to gain from conceptualizing its
subject matter in a developmental framework. Most instructional programs designed to teach …

Young children develop causal knowledge through everyday family conversations and
activities. Children's museums are an informative setting for studying the social context of …

The goal of this article is to provide an integrative review of research that has been
conducted on the development of children's scientific reasoning. Broadly defined, scientific …

The metaphor of children and lay adults as intuitive scientists has gained wide acceptance.
Although useful in one sense, pertaining to scientific understanding, in another, pertaining to …

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and
70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which …

The development of scientific thinking skills. The development of scientific thinking skills.
Citation Kuhn, D., Amsel, E., O'Loughlin, M., Schauble, L., Leadbeater, B., & Yotive, W. (1988) …

In this provocative monograph, Bertram Malle describes behavior explanations as having a
dual nature—as being both cognitive and social acts—and proposes a comprehensive …