Blueprints for Thinking: The Role of Planning in Cognitive Development

Book Overview

Planning is an important human ability that guides behaviour and thereby complements instinctual fixed action patterns. How do people learn to plan? How do they develop the various skills that are implied by planfulness? This volume explores these questions as well as the concept of planning and its relationships to the concepts of problem-solving and organizational skills. The editors of this volume have drawn upon an international cadre of scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521256054
• ISBN13: 9780521256056
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"