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Piaget Or the Advance of Knowledge

An Overview and Glossary

• By Jacques Montangero, Danielle Maurice-Naville

This unusual volume presents an overview of Jean Piaget's work in psychology--from his earliest writings to posthumous publications. It also contains a glossary of the...

Published June 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Situated Cognition

Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives

• Edited by David Kirshner, James A. Whitson

This book is a result of a symposium at a recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association that explored foundational issues relative to...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Gender and Fair Assessment

• By Warren W. Willingham, Nancy S. Cole

There have been many important changes in the participation of women and men in American society over the past quarter-century. Tests play a role in...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Mathematics Teachers in Transition

• Edited by Elizabeth Fennema, Barbara Scott Nelson

This book addresses the need of professional development leaders and policymakers for scholarly knowledge about influencing teachers to modify mathematical instruction to bring it more...

Published May 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Tutorials in Bilingualism

Psycholinguistic Perspectives

• Edited by Annette M.B. de Groot, Judith F. Kroll

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, neuropsychologists,...

Published April 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Memory Development Between Two and Twenty

• By Wolfgang Schneider, Michael Pressley

In this volume, two scholars with different but complementary interests in memory and cognitive development present a careful overview of the field of memory development...

Published April 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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The Automaticity of Everyday Life

Advances in Social Cognition, Volume X

• Edited by Jr., Robert S. Wyer

As Skinner argued so pointedly, the more we know about the situational causes of psychological phenomena, the less need we have for postulating internal conscious...

Published March 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Learning and Awareness

• By Ference Marton, Shirley Booth

This book stems from more than 25 years of systematic research into the experience of learning undertaken by a research team trying to account for...

Published March 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation

Bridging Fictional and Actual Events

• Edited by Paul van den Broek, Patricia J. Bauer, Tammy Bourg

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to understand the...

Published February 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Collective Memory of Political Events

Social Psychological Perspectives

• Edited by James W. Pennebaker, Dar¡o Paez, Bernard Rim‚, Dario Paez

Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is...

Published February 1st 1997 by Psychology Press.

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