1st Edition
The Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills
By Michael A. Forrester
Copyright 1992
232 Pages
by
Psychology Press
233 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Understanding how young children begin to make sense out of the social world has become a major concern within developmental psychology. Over the last 25 years research in this area has raised a number of questions which mirror the confluence of interests from cognitive-developmental and social-developmental psychology. The aims of this book are to consider critically the major themes and findings... Read more
Social-Cognitive Development. Individualistic Social-Cognitive Development. Interactionist Social-Cognitive Development. Conversational Contexts: The Site for Emerging Social-Cognitive Skills. A Framework for Investigating Social-Cognitive Skills. Illustrating the Framework: Overhearing and the Development of Social-Cognitive Skills. Overhearing as "Attention Focusing." Overhearing as Conversation Monitoring. Investigating and Understanding Children's Social-Cognitive Skills: A Synopsis.
Biography
Forrester, Michael A.
'The strength of this book is its good coverage and critical evaluations of various theoretical positions. Forrester raises many interesting points.' - Marjorie Taylor in Contemporary Psychology, 1994
'"...provides an up-to-date and concise theoretical overview and will be of particular interest to those in developmental psychology and education.' - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1993
'The overall line of argument in the first two parts is timely, wide-ranging and interesting.' - A.J. Wootton (University of York) in Journal of Child Language, 1993
