Intellectual Development
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- Editors:
- Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York
- Cynthia A. Berg
- Date Published: March 1992
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521397698
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Much of the work on intellectual development separates development into two separate developmental periods: the formation of intelligence and basic cognitive skills that occurs until adolescence, and the maintenance, decline, or improvement of these intellectual skills across the adult life span. The separation has resulted in what may be artificial development during childhood and adulthood. Intellectual Development seeks to reconnect development by encompassing theoretical issues of intellectual development across the life course. Additionally, Intellectual Development explores the great diversity that currently exists in the types of theoretical perspectives that guide thinking about how intelligence develops through the life course. Robert Sternberg and Cynthia Berg offer a comprehensive overview of current theoretical and empirical work from six different perspectives to intellectual development: psychometric, Piagetian, neo-Piagetian, information-processing, learning, and contextual. Although these different perspectives to intellectual development have often been at odds, the book shows that taken together, each perspective adds important components to the puzzle of intellectual development. Common themes arise within and across particular perspectives, which suggest a more unified view of intellectual development may emerge as boundary lines between perspectives and developmental periods diminish.
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" ...an informative volume, with much intellectual nourishment." David Goldstein, American Scientist
See more reviews"...an excellent attempt to provide some integration in the field of intellectual development, not only across theoretical perspectives but also across developmental periods...Seldom have the chapters in an edited volume been so nicely complementary. Sternberg and Berg are to be congratulated on producing a very important collection of readings on intellectual development." Nancy W. Denney, Contemporary Psychology
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- Date Published: March 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521397698
- length: 428 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 151 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.59kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface
1. Perspectives for viewing intellectual development throughout the life course Cynthia A. Berg
2. The psychometric perspective on intellectual development in childhood and adolescence Michael K. Gardener and Elaine Clark
3. Major abilities and development in the adult period John L. Horn and Scott M. Hofer
4. Beyond the stage debate: action, structure, and variability in Piagetian theory and research Thomas R. Bidell and Kurt W. Fischer
5. The study of adult cognition from a Piagetian perspective James A. Blackburn and Diane E. Papalia
6. Neo-Piagetian theories of child development Robbie Case
7. A neo-Piagetian perspective on adult cognitive development Gisela Labouvie-Vief
8. The information-processing perspective on cognitive development in childhood and adolescence Kobert Kail and Jeffrey Bisanz
9. The information-processing perspective on cognitive aging Timothy A. Salthouse
10. Integrating learning into a theory of intellectual development Richard L. Canfield and Stephen J. Ceci
11. The learning perspective: Adulthood Neil Charness and Sherrie Bieman-Copland
12. A sociocultural approach to intellectual development James V. Wertsch and Bonnie G. Kanner
13. Contextual approaches to adult intellectual development Roger A. Dixon
14. The princess grows up: a satiric fairy tale about intellectual development Robert J. Sternberg
Author index
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