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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert siegler”
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  • How Children Discover New Strategies

    by Robert Siegler, Eric A. Jenkins ...
    Series series Distinguished Lecture Series
    This well-documented book divides the process of constructing new problem-solving strategies into two parts: discovery of the new strategy, and its generalization to new contexts. By using a trial-by-trial analysis, the authors are able to identify the exact trial on which the new strategy is first used, the circumstances that lead to the discovery, and the generalization of the strategy beyond ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Children's Thinking

    What Develops?

    Edited by Robert Siegler ...
    Series series Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
    First published in 1978. In 1963, John Flavell posed one of the truly basic questions underlying the study of children’s thinking; his question was simply “What develops?” This volume holds the papers from the 13th Annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium, held in May 1977, that considering what progress had been made toward answering this question in the past 15 years. ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Mechanisms of Cognitive Development

    Behavioral and Neural Perspectives

    Edited by James L. McClelland, Robert Siegler ...
    Series series Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
    This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those that make children ready and able to learn at particular points in development.Behavioral approaches ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Handbook of Executive Functioning

    Edited by Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood.The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, ... Read more

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  • Emotions of Animals and Humans

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Shigeru Watanabe, Stan Kuczaj ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic appreciation of the arts, is based at least in part on a basic emotional sensibility that is found in ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of Normal

    How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior

    by Jordan Smoller ...
    A Harvard psychiatrist uses biology, genetics, psychology, and advances in molecular neuroscience and neuroimaging to examine what it means to be normal."Move over Oliver Sacks—I couldn't put this fascinating book down! Path-breaking and witty, as entertaining as it is informative, The Other Side of Normal is filled with insights into why we behave as we do and how biology determines so much of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Passages

    Mapping Your Life Across Time

    by Gail Sheehy ...
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMillions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she set out to write a sequel, but instead she discovered a historic revolution in the adult life cycle. . .People are taking longer to grow up and much longer to die. A fifty-year-old woman--who remains free of cancer and heart disease-- can expect ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cultural Nature of Human Development

    by Barbara Rogoff ...
    Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities

    Don't guess my happiness

    Edited by Stephanie Bull, Kevin O'Farrell ...
    In this book Stephanie Bull and Kevin O’Farrell bring together practising clinicians who provide an insight into using contemporary art therapy with people with learning disabilities. The authentic voice of people who have learning disabilities is central to the book, and case examples, snapshots of thoughts, dialogue, photographs and artwork are included to ensure that the subjects' voices are ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Mindful

    Essential Practices to Help Children, Teens, and Families Find Balance, Calm, and Resilience

    by Christopher Willard, PsyD ...
    The American Psychological Association’s 2014 survey on stress made an alarming discovery: America’s teens are now the most stressed-out age group in the country. Growing Up Mindful shows parents and professionals alike how to model and teach the skills of mindfulness that will empower our youth for the rest of their lives with greater self-awareness, resiliency, and confidence.While many adults ... Read more

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  • Anger Management Games for Children

    by Deborah Plummer ...
    Praise for the author:'Deborah Plummer uses imagination and empowerment to move children and adults from discouragement to success.'- The Canadian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Review'Deborah Plummer shows a fundamental respect for a child's integrity whilst making sure her language and ideas accessible to a wide range of people.'- Afasic NewsThis practical handbook helps adults to understand, ... Read more

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