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

Table of Contents

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
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