Cognitive Perspectives on Children's Social and Behavioral Development: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 18 / Edition 1

by M. Perlmutter

Overview

This volume contains the papers presented at the eighteenth Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, held October 27-29, 1983, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. As has been the tradition for this annual series, the faculty of the Institute of Child Development invited internationally eminent researchers to present their research and to consider problems of mutual concern to scientists studying development. The theme of the eighteenth symposium, and the present volume was cognitive perspectives on social and behavior development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780898595468
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/1986
Series:	Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology Series
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1340L (what's this?)

About the Author

Marion Perlmutter, The University of Michigan

Table of Contents

1. Social-Cognitive and Social Behavioral Perspectives on Problem Solving 2. Comments on Rubin and Krasnor: Solutions and Problems in Research on Problem Solving 3. A Social Information Processing Model of Social Competence in Children 4. Needed Steps for Social Competence: Strengths and Present Limitations of Dodge’s Model 5. Becoming a Different Person: Transformations in Personality and Social Behavior 6. Lumping and Splitting in Developmental Theory: Comments on Fischer and Elmendorf 7. Children’s Comments about their Friendships 8. Comments on Berndt: Children’s Comments About Their Friendships References 9. Understanding the Developing Understanding of Control 10. Comments on Weisz: “ Understanding the Developing 11. Adult Social Cognition: Implications of Parents’ Ideas for Approaches to Development 12. Comments on Goodnow, Knight, and Cashmore: A Family Perspective on Cognition and Change