Stephen Von Tetzchner

Typical and Atypical Child Development 4 Cognition, Intelligence and Learning (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000608236
• Artikelnr.: 64356816

Autorenporträt

Stephen von Tetzchner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

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