Table of Contents:
  • The developing brain
  • The logical child: Piaget's theory of cognitive development
  • Egocentric or social animals? The work of Lev Vygotsky
  • The development of a moral sense
  • Other people and other minds
  • The development of memory
  • Measuring children's cognitive development
  • Nature or nurture?
  • Cognitive development in the classroom: Reading, writing and arithmetic
  • Television, toys and the child as consumer.