Individual Development from 3 to 12
Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study

A long-term, comprehensive longitudinal study analyzing developmental changes in the cognitive, social, and personality domain.

Franz E. Weinert (Edited by), Wolfgang Schneider (Edited by)

9780521176347, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

372 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.55 kg

"...this is an excellent book. It provides a unique longitudinal perspective on childhood development that is unrivaled. Any developmental psychologist will want to read this volume." Robert J. Sternberg, Human Development

This book describes the findings of a longitudinal study conducted with about 200 children from 1984 to 1993. Children were recruited for the study when they had just entered kindergarten at the age of about 4 years. The study aimed to investigate changes in cognitive, social, and personality development over the preschool and elementary school years. One of the unique features of this longitudinal study is that relationships and interactions among cognitive, social, and personality development could be assessed based on the data of a representative sample of children.

1. Logic: introduction and overview Franz E. Weinert, Wolfgang Schneider, Jan Stefanek and Angelika Weber
2. The development of intelligence and thinking Wolfgang Schneider, Josef Perner, Merry Bullock, Jan Stefanek and Albert Ziegler
2a. What individual differences can teach us about developmental function, and vice versa David F. Bjorklund
3. Scientific reasoning: developmental and individual differences Merry Bullock and Albert Ziegler
3a. Comments on 'scientific' reasoning: developmental and individual differences David Klahr
4. Memory strategy development: gradual increase, sudden insight, or roller coaster Beate Sodian and Wolfgang Schneider
4a. Toward an understanding of the development of memory: comments on the chapters by Sodian and Schneider and by Weber and Strube
5. Memory for events experienced and events observed Angelika Weber and Gerhard Strube
6. The development of memory for texts Monika Knopf
6a. Developmental trends in story recall Walter Kintsch
7. The impact of early phonological processing skills on reading and spelling in school: evidence from the Munich Longitudinal Study Wolfgang Schneider and Jan Carol Näslund
7a. Sound logic Peter Bryant
8. Development of mathematical competencies Elsbeth Stern
8a. Commentary on development of mathematical competencies Susan R. Goldman and James W. Pellegrino
9. Schooling and the development of achievement differences Andreas Helmke and Franz C. Weinert
9a. Schooling and the development of achievement differences Richard E. Snow
10. From optimism to realism?: development of children's academic self-concept from Kindergarten to Grade 6 Andreas Helmke
10a. The logic and meaning of declining perceptions of academic competence Deborah Stipek
11. Social-personality development Jens B. Asendorpf
11a. Contributions to knowledge about social-personality development: the Munich Logic Study Kenneth R. Rubin
12. The development of moral understanding and moral motivation Gertrud Nunner-Winkler
12a. Caring about morality: the development of moral motivation in Nunner-Winkler's work Augusto Blasi
13. A person-centered approach to development: the temporal consistency of personality and self-concept Marcel A. G. Van Aken and Jens B. Asendorpf
13a. Regarding 'a person-centered approach to development Jack Block
14. Universal, differential and individual aspects of child development from 3 to 12: what can we learn from a comprehensive longitudinal study? Franz E. Weinert, Merry Bullock and Wolfgang Schneider
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Child & developmental psychology [JMC]