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Intellectual Development

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Intellectual Development
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Robert J. Sternberg
Edited by Cynthia A. Berg
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:428
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780521397698
ClassificationsDewey:153
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 27 March 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Books on intellectual development typically separate development into distinct developmental periods: the formation of intelligence and basic cognitive skills that occurs until adolescence, and the maintenance, decline, or improvement of these intellectual skills across the adult life span. Robert Sternberg and Cynthia Berg have integrated research on these two development periods, by bringing together authors that provide a comprehensive overview to the major approaches to intellectual development. The authors draw on six different approaches to intellectual development through childhood or adulthood: psychometric, Piagetian, new-Piagetian, information- processing, learning, and the contextual perspectives. Common themes arise within, and across, particular perspectives, which suggests that a more unified view of intellectual development may emerge as boundary lines between perspectives and developmental periods diminish.

Reviews

" ...an informative volume, with much intellectual nourishment." David Goldstein, American Scientist "...an excellent attempt to provide some integration in the field of intellectual development, not only across theoretical perspectives but also across developmental periods...Seldom have the chapters in an edited volume been so nicely complementary. Sternberg and Berg are to be congratulated on producing a very important collection of readings on intellectual development." Nancy W. Denney, Contemporary Psychology