Psychological Development in the Elementary Year

Psychological Development in the Elementary Years is the second in a series of reviews relating current theory and research on psychological development to educational practice. The book discusses the significance and change in psychological sex roles; peer relations; and the development and regulation of aggression in young children. The text also describes the acquisition of self-control; the developmental trends in the learning processes; and the foundations and direction of cognitive development. The theory and research on children's achievement; the family influences on language and cognitive development and the personal and social causation in the school context are also considered. The book further tackles the behavioral perspective of children with learning and behavior problems. Psychologists, psychiatrists, behavioral psychologists, and students taking related courses will find the book invaluable.

What is the likely connection between development differences in metacognitive
knowledge and the increasingly self-conscious regulation of cognitive routines by
older children? ... Suggestive is Egeland's (1974) finding that training impulsive
second graders in visual scanning, a program that devoted much attention to
checking, not only improved the accuracy of their performance on a visual
matching task but also generalized 5 months later to a test of reading
achievement.