Book chapter
Children's thinking is not just about what is in the head: understanding the organism and environment as a unified system
Advances in child development and behavior, pp.373-417
Advances in child development and behavior, 36
2008
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2407(08)00009-8
PMID: 18808048
Abstract
This chapter illustrates that variations in children's thinking across different contexts arise out of the real-time interaction of the cognitive system and the available environmental structure. From this perspective, thinking does not reside only in the head. Rather, thinking is an activity that emerges out of a unified system that includes both the child and the environment. Development proceeds in a cyclical fashion with changes in the cognitive system opening up new sensitivities to environmental structure and new sensitivities to environmental structure leading to the further refinement of cognitive skills. Ultimately, a better understanding of these interactions both in the moment and over development should allow better predicting the course of cognitive development for individual children and successfully intervening when aspects of cognitive development go awry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Children's thinking is not just about what is in the head: understanding the organism and environment as a unified system
- Creators
- Jodie M Plumert - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Advances in child development and behavior, pp.373-417
- Series
- Advances in child development and behavior; 36
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0065-2407(08)00009-8
- PMID
- 18808048
- NLM abbreviation
- Adv Child Dev Behav
- ISSN
- 0065-2407
- Grant note
- R03-HD36761 / NICHD NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2008
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213393902771
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