Richard M. Lerner & Lynn S. Liben 
Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Volume 2, Cognitive Processes [PDF ebook] 

The essential reference for human development theory, updated
and reconceptualized
The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental
Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to
which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in
its Seventh Edition, the Handbook has long been considered
the definitive guide to the field of developmental science.
Volume 2: Cognitive Processes describes cognitive
development as a relational phenomenon that can be studied only as
part of a larger whole of the person and context relational system
that sustains it. In this volume, specific domains of cognitive
development are contextualized with respect to biological processes
and sociocultural contexts. Furthermore, key themes and issues
(e.g., the importance of symbolic systems and social understanding)
are threaded across multiple chapters, although every each chapter
is focused on a different domain within cognitive development.
Thus, both within and across chapters, the complexity and
interconnectivity of cognitive development are well
illuminated.
* Learn about the inextricable intertwining of perceptual
development, motor development, emotional development, and brain
development
* Understand the complexity of cognitive development without
misleading simplification, reducing cognitive development to its
biological substrates, or viewing it as a passive socialization
process
* Discover how each portion of the developmental process
contributes to subsequent cognitive development
* Examine the multiple processes – such as categorizing,
reasoning, thinking, decision making and judgment – that
comprise cognition
The scholarship within this volume and, as well, across the four
volumes of this edition, illustrate that developmental science is
in the midst of a very exciting period. There is a paradigm shift
that involves increasingly greater understanding of how to
describe, explain, and optimize the course of human life for
diverse individuals living within diverse contexts. This
Handbook is the definitive reference for educators,
policy-makers, researchers, students, and practitioners in human
development, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and
neuroscience.

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