The Development of Mental Processing: Efficiency, Working Memory, and Thinking (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

The Development of Mental Processing integrates severalpsychological approaches in order to create a more comprehensivetheoretical system. This system is tested through a longitudinalstudy of children 8 to 16 years of age, where findings show that itis ones efficiency at processing information, which has thegreatest impact on the development of the working memory. Thisworking memory, in turn, becomes the underlying factor determiningindividual differences in thinking.Study presenting a developing comprehensive theorhetical systemand showing its evolution.Includes commentary by Kurt Fischer and Theo Dawson.An interesting monograph for both students and researchersabout the process of theory creation as much as the study'sfindings.