Perspectives for viewing intellectual development throughout the life course / Cynthia A. Berg -- The psychometric perspective on intellectual development in childhood and adolescence / Michael K. Gardner and Elaine Clark -- Major abilities and development in the adult period / John L. Horn and Scott M. Hofer -- Beyond the stage debate : action, structure, and variability in Piagetian theory and research / Thomas R. Bidell and Kurt W. Fischer -- The study of adult cognition from a Piagetian perspective / James A. Blackburn and Diane E. Papalia -- Neo-Piagetian theories of child development / Robbie Case -- A neo-Piagetian perspective on adult cognitive development / Gisela Labouvie-Vief -- The information-processing perspective on cognitive development in childhood and adolescence / Robert Kail and Jeffrey Bisanz

The information-processing perspective on cognitive aging / Timothy A. Salthouse -- Integrating learning into a theory of intellectual development / Richard L. Canfield and Stephen J. Ceci -- The learning perspective : adulthood / Neil Charness and Sherrie Bieman-Copland -- A sociocultural approach to intellectual development / James V. Wertsch and Bonnie G. Kanner -- Contextual approaches to adult intellectual development / Roger A. Dixon -- The princess grows up : a satiric fairy tale about intellectual development / Robert J. Sternberg