Introduction and overview: Goals and structure of logic / Merry Bullock & Wolfgang Schneider -- Development of intelligence and thinking / Wolfgang Schneider, Jan Stefanek & Frank Niklas -- Developmental changes and individual stability of motor abilities from preschool to young adulthood / Jutta Ahnert, Wolfgang Schneider & Klaus Bèos -- Verbal memory development from early childhood to early adulthood / Wolfgang Schneider, Monika Knopf & Beate Sodian -- Moral motivation from childhood to early adulthood / Gertrud Nunner-Winkler -- Personality trajectories from early childhood through emerging adulthood / Jens B. Asendorpf, Jaap J. A. Denissen & Marcel A. G. van Aken -- Development of self-confidence from adolescence to early adulthood / Friedrich-Wilhelm Schrader & Andreas Helmke -- Doing experiments and understanding science : development of scientific reasoning from childhood to adulthood / Merry Bullock, Beate Sodian & Susanne Koerber -- The development of reading and spelling : relevant precursors, developmental changes and individual differences / Wolfgang Schneider -- The development of mathematical competencies : sources of individual differences and their developmental trajectories / Elsbeth Stern -- Epilogue: Problems and potentials of the Munich Longitudinal Study / Wolfgang Schneider & Merry Bullock.