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Descriptive children's cognitive skill and knowledge - reading,writing, maths, memory; children's reasoning; children's use ofmetaphors - metacognition, transfer, problem solving; children'smusical cognition; children's drawings; children's spatial cognition;children's concepts of this, that and the other; childhood animism;children's concepts of bodies; individual differences in cognitivedevelopment - intelligence, cognitive style, creativity; models ofcognition in childhood - metaphors, achievements and problems; Piaget'smodel of cognitive development; information processing models ofcognitive development - Vygotsky; causes of change and variation incognitive development - brains and cognitive development; genes and thephysical environment in cognitive development; the social world andcognitive development; the school as a setting for the development andacquisition of cognition; teaching thinking; social influences onchildren's cognitive development; questions, problems and possibilities- problems of diagnosis; patterns of cognitive development; problems ofexplanation; constraints on cognitive development; cognition andemotion in development; imagination.