title: Strategic development.
abstract: Strategic development is more diverse, multifaceted and eventful than previously realized. Individual children know and use multiple strategies for solving a given kind of problem; they choose adaptively among available alternatives; and they frequently discover new strategies that enhance their problem-solving abilities. A recently formulated computer simulation (SCADS) indicates how associative and metacognitive processes work together to produce adaptive choices among existing strategies and discovery of useful new approaches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Siegler