Learning aims have been provided to help keep track of the key concepts you need to master in each chapter:

• be familiar with the various aspects of attention, including sustained, selective and flexible atten­tion, attention strategies including planning and attention as a cognitive resource
   
• understand memory processes, including memory retrieval and memory strategies
   
• be able to describe metacognition, including the adaptive choice strategy model and the possi­ble adaptive function of children’s limitations in thinking about thinking
   
• articulate gains in problem solving, early manifestations of means-end behaviour, rules, tool use and reasoning