Intellectual Development

• List of contributors; Preface; 1. Perspectives for viewing intellectual development throughout the life course Cynthia A. Berg; 2. The psychometric perspective on intellectual development in childhood and adolescence Michael K. Gardener and Elaine Clark; 3. Major abilities and development in the adult period John L. Horn and Scott M. Hofer; 4. Beyond the stage debate: action, structure, and variability in Piagetian theory and research Thomas R. Bidell and Kurt W. Fischer; 5. The study of adult cognition from a Piagetian perspective James A. Blackburn and Diane E. Papalia; 6. Neo-Piagetian theories of child development Robbie Case; 7. A neo-Piagetian perspective on adult cognitive development Gisela Labouvie-Vief; 8. The information-processing perspective on cognitive development in childhood and adolescence Kobert Kail and Jeffrey Bisanz; 9. The information-processing perspective on cognitive aging Timothy A. Salthouse; 10. Integrating learning into a theory of intellectual development Richard L. Canfield and Stephen J. Ceci; 11. The learning perspective: Adulthood Neil Charness and Sherrie Bieman-Copland; 12. A sociocultural approach to intellectual development James V. Wertsch and Bonnie G. Kanner; 13. Contextual approaches to adult intellectual development Roger A. Dixon; 14. The princess grows up: a satiric fairy tale about intellectual development Robert J. Sternberg; Author index; Subject index.

" ...an informative volume, with much intellectual nourishment." David Goldstein, American Scientist