Formal Methods in Developmental Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Mathematical and Statistical Methods

   1. Structural Measurement Theory and Cognitive Development

      • Charles J. Brainerd

      Pages 1-37

   2. The New Two-Stage Model of Learning: A Tool for Analyzing the Loci of Memory Differences in Intellectually Impaired Children

      • Johannes Kingma

      Pages 38-85

   3. Learning a Cognitive Skill and Its Components

      • Alex Cherry Wilkinson, Beth A. Haines

      Pages 86-114

   4. Formal Representation of Qualitative and Quantitative Reversible Operations

      • Colleen F. Surber

      Pages 115-154

   5. Implicit Theories: An Alternative to Modeling Cognition and Its Development

      • Robert J. Sternberg

      Pages 155-192

   6. Modeling X-Linked Mediated Development: Development of Sex Differences in the Service of a Simple Model

      • Hoben Thomas

      Pages 193-215

   7. Geometric Methods in Developmental Research

      • Kevin F. Miller

      Pages 216-262

3. Computer Simulation Methods

   1. Computer Simulation, Cognition, and Development: An Introduction

      • F. Michael Rabinowitz, Malcolm J. Grant, H. Louis Dingley

      Pages 263-301

   2. Children’s Knowledge of Simple Arithmetic: A Developmental Model and Simulation

      • Mark H. Ashcraft

      Pages 302-338

   3. Mechanisms of Visual Development: An Example of Computational Models

      • Martin S. Banks

      Pages 339-371

   4. Monte Carlo Simulation as a Method of Identifying Properties of Behavioral Organization

      • C. Donald Heth, Edward H. Cornell

      Pages 372-398

4. Back Matter

   Pages 399-413

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Current and comprehensive, Formal Methods in Developmental Psychology reviews and explains the advantages and details of recent methodological advances in developmental psychology. The latest progress in the use of mathematical and computer-based tools in the formulation of theories and data analysis are discussed. Individual chapters describe different approaches to computer simulation and to mathematical modeling, as well as the use of these models in a number of substantive areas including infant vision, perception of intelligence, spatial knowledge, and memory processes. This unique contribution to the "Springer Series in Cognitive Development" allows the reader a better understanding of the many forms of modeling through explicit descriptions of the steps involved in the use of various methods.

• cognition
• data analysis
• development
• developmental psychology
• intelligence
• memory
• perception
• psychology
• statistical method

• Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Jeffrey Bisanz

• Program in Educational Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

  Charles J. Brainerd

• Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

  Robert Kail

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