2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Individual Differences in Cognition
Every normal child recalls past events, develops a rich conceptual understanding of the world, learns to speak, to reason, to plan and to solve problems. But within this universal framework there are very marked differences in the way individual minds function. Faced with the same information two minds may come up with very different interpretations. Given the same problem to solve, two minds may make very different plans for solving it and may find very different strategies.