Simultaneous and Successive Cognitive Processes

Preface


1 Intelligence: Tradition and Change


1.1 History of Intelligence: A Matter of Definition


1.2 The Nature of Intelligence


1.3 Old Pioneers and New Messiahs


1.4 The Learning Theory Point of View


1.5 Concluding Remarks


2 The Workings of the Brain


2.1 Soviet Psychology


2.2 The Three Blocks of the Brain


2.3 Relation to Intelligence


3 Model of Simultaneous and Successive Processing


3.1 Roots of the Model


3.2 The Model


3.3 Measures of the Two Processes


4 Simultaneous and Successive Processing in Children


4.1 Clinical Methods and Factor Analysis


4.2 Simultaneous and Successive Factors: A Representative Study


4.3 Comparison of Children in Grades 1 and 4


5 Relationship of Simultaneous and Successive Coding to School Achievement


5.1 The Prediction of School Achievement


5.2 Simultaneous-Successive Processing and Achievement


5.3 Implications for Remediation and Education


6 Understanding Mental Retardation and Learning Disability


6.1 General and Specific Cognitive Problems


6.2 Understanding Mental Retardation


6.3 Learning Disability


6.4 The Causes of Cognitive Problems: Defect or Developmental Lag


6.5 Conclusions


7 Cross-Cultural Studies


7.1 Cognitive Competence and Cultural Disadvantage


7.2 Caste as a Variable


7.3 Simultaneous and Successive Processing Differences: Caste and Class as Independent Variables


7.4 Cognitive Processes of Aboriginal Children in Orissa: Factor-Analytic Data


7.5 White, Black, and Native Children's Performance


7.6 Concluding Remarks


8 Comparison with Alternate Models


8.1 Construct Validity


8.2 Related Models of Cognition


8.3 Toward an Integrated Perspective


8.4 Some Cautions


9 Can Strategies Be Taught?


9.1 Application of Simultaneous-Successive Model


9.2 Essential Features of Intervention


9.3 Conclusion


10 Language Functions and Cognitive Processing


10.1 Research on Aphasia


10.2 Experiments on Some Linguistic Functions


10.3 The Nature of Successive Processing


11 Retrospect and Prospect


11.1 Intelligence Revisited


11.2 Halstead, Luria, and the Neuropsychological Approach


11.3 Comments on Successive Processing


11.4 Learning Disability, Hyperactivity, and the Functional Organization of the Brain


11.5 Developmental Issues


11.6 Early Detection and Remediation: A Framework For Research

Appendix A General Manual for Tests of Simultaneous and Successive Processing and Speed of Processing

A.1 Descriptions and Instructions

A.2 Test Means, Standard Deviations, and Factor Loadings

References

Index