This volume of the "Annals" offers an array of topics in child development, presented from a number of theoretical perspectives. Rovee-Collier and Bhatt open the volume with a thorough and up-to-date review of the findings generated by various techniques for studying long-term memory in infancy, concluding that early memories are much more durable than once believed. Howes and Droege discuss the issue of child care from a new perspective - child care as a context for social interaction and the physical and human variables that affect it. Mary Gauvian offers an argument as to why spatial thinking should be conceptualized and studied within the sociocultural context in which it develops. Next, Pamela Blewitt examines the belief that a schematic-to-taxonomic shift characterizes young children's lexical memory and discusses potential mechanisms for the developmental changes occurring in this area. Harbeck-Weber and Peterson review the current literature on children's conceptions of illness and pain, offering a developmental model to organize existing data and corresponding recommendations for practitioners. Finally, Ackerman and Mannes consider how children and adults develop inferences regarding causal relations, suggesting that a minimalist model provides a better account of observed phenomena than does an elaborative model.
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