This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common developmental disorders.
This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to cognitive development in childhood and adolescence. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and development, and common developmental disorders.
Stephen von Tetzchner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.
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Introduction Part I Theories of Cognitive Development 1. Cognition 2. Domains, modules and activities 3. Logical constructivism 4. Information processing 5. Nativism 6. Social constructionism 7. Disparity and integration Summary of Part I Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part II Attention, Memory and Executive Function 8. Basic Cognitive Functions 9. Attention 10. Memory 11. Executive Functions Summary of Part II Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part III Conceptual Development and Reasoning 12. Concepts and Reasoning 13. Early conceptions of space, time and causality 14. Object concepts 15. Reasoning 16. Atypical development Summary of Part III Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part IV Mind Understanding 17. The Human Mind 18. Visual perspective 19. Private speech 20. Early understanding of desires and beliefs 21. Further development of mind understanding 22. Individual and cultural differences 23. Atypical development of mind understanding Summary of Part IIII Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part V Intelligence 24. The Concept of Intelligence 25. Theories of intelligence 26. Intelligence tests 27. Stability and variation in IQ scores 28. Nature, nurture and intelligence 29. Gender differences 30. Ethnicity and intelligence 31. Changing norms: The Flynn effect 32. School performance and intelligence 33. Atypical development Summary of Part IV Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part VI Learning and Instruction 34. Learning and Adaptation 35. Types of learning 36. Two developmental perspectives on education 37. Cooperation among children 38. Atypical development: Learning disorders 39. Learning disorders and mental disorders Summary of Part VI Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Glossary Bibliography Index
Introduction Part I Theories of Cognitive Development 1. Cognition 2. Domains, modules and activities 3. Logical constructivism 4. Information processing 5. Nativism 6. Social constructionism 7. Disparity and integration Summary of Part I Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part II Attention, Memory and Executive Function 8. Basic Cognitive Functions 9. Attention 10. Memory 11. Executive Functions Summary of Part II Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part III Conceptual Development and Reasoning 12. Concepts and Reasoning 13. Early conceptions of space, time and causality 14. Object concepts 15. Reasoning 16. Atypical development Summary of Part III Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part IV Mind Understanding 17. The Human Mind 18. Visual perspective 19. Private speech 20. Early understanding of desires and beliefs 21. Further development of mind understanding 22. Individual and cultural differences 23. Atypical development of mind understanding Summary of Part IIII Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part V Intelligence 24. The Concept of Intelligence 25. Theories of intelligence 26. Intelligence tests 27. Stability and variation in IQ scores 28. Nature, nurture and intelligence 29. Gender differences 30. Ethnicity and intelligence 31. Changing norms: The Flynn effect 32. School performance and intelligence 33. Atypical development Summary of Part IV Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Part VI Learning and Instruction 34. Learning and Adaptation 35. Types of learning 36. Two developmental perspectives on education 37. Cooperation among children 38. Atypical development: Learning disorders 39. Learning disorders and mental disorders Summary of Part VI Core Issues Suggestions for further reading Glossary Bibliography Index
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