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Cognitive Development Today

Author : Peter A A Sutherland
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473914000
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Development Today written by Peter A A Sutherland and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-05-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `At the end of the day, what is crucial is to enable educationalists to promote and apply their own metatheories and models of child development which they feel comfortable with and which enable children to develop. ... Peter Sutherland should be credited with making a significant contribution towards achieving this fundamental goal' - Educational Psychology in Practice ` ... this book deserves to become a classic in the field. Will appeal alike to academics and students in higher education, and to serving teachers- BPS: Educational Review Section This book provides a general outline of the dominant schools of thought on cognitive development, with a focus on Piaget. His views are outlined and a range of critical responses and alternatives are detailed. The author examines the application of these schools of thought to teaching pre-school, primary and secondary children. Each chapter includes a summary and questions for discussion. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.

Understanding Cognitive Development

Author : Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473918154
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Cognitive Development written by Maggie McGonigle-Chalmers and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Cognitive Development provides a fresh, evidence-based research perspective on the story of children’s cognitive development in the first ten years of human life. Starting with a brief survey of the key theoretical positions that have come to define developmental psychology, the textbook then focuses on the different cognitive abilities as they emerge throughout early development. Uniquely, it examines these in terms of their interdependence; that is how skills such as perception, memory, language and reasoning relate to one another. This holistic treatment allows students to see the many important intersections in this critical phase of human life development. This textbook employs a novel design that will be of immense help to both students and instructors and is intended to be read at two levels: at the first level, it provides a fully referenced explanatory account of experimental research on cognitive development with complete attention to the needs of students who have never been exposed to experimental methodology nor studies in cognitive development before. At the second level, and mapped directly onto numbered sub-sections within the text, the author uses illustrative panels designed along the lines of PowerPoint presentations to summarise studies and key findings, employing lots of pictorial material together with bullet-points to give vividness and texture to the material covered. These panels are replicated on the accompanying companion website in PowerPoint for lecturers and students to make further use of in teaching and revision. Revision points are provided at the end of every chapter. Rich in academic coverage, including a widespread database of the most important empirical research in the field, this textbook will be essential reading for students of cognitive development and developmental psychology across psychology and education.

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309324882
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Language in Cognitive Development

Author : Katherine Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629874
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Language in Cognitive Development written by Katherine Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of language as a cognitive and communicative tool in a child's early development.

Neoconstructivism

Author : Scott Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195331052
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Neoconstructivism written by Scott Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments over the developmental origins of human knowledge are ancient, founded in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, and Kant. They have also persisted long enough to become a core area of inquiry in cognitive and developmental science. Empirical contributions to these debates, however, appeared only in the last century, when Jean Piaget offered the first viable theory of knowledge acquisition that centered on the great themes discussed by Kant: object, space, time, and causality. The essence of Piaget's theory is constructivism: The building of concepts from simpler perceptual and cognitive precursors, in particular from experience gained through manual behaviors and observation.The constructivist view was disputed by a generation of researchers dedicated to the idea of the "competent infant," endowed with knowledge (say, of permanent objects) that emerged prior to facile manual behaviors. Taking this possibility further, it has been proposed that many fundamental cognitive mechanisms -- reasoning, event prediction, decision-making, hypothesis testing, and deduction -- operate independently of all experience, and are, in this sense, innate. The competent-infant view has an intuitive appeal, attested to by its widespread popularity, and it enjoys a kind of parsimony: It avoids the supposed philosophical pitfall posed by having to account for novel forms of knowledge in inductive learners. But this view leaves unaddressed a vital challenge: to understand the mechanisms by which new knowledge arises.This challenge has now been met. The neoconstructivist approach is rooted in Piaget's constructivist emphasis on developmental mechanisms, yet also reflects modern advances in our understanding of learning mechanisms, cortical development, and modeling. This book brings together, for the first time, theoretical views that embrace computational models and developmental neurobiology, and emphasize the interplay of time, experience, and cortical architecture to explain emergent knowledge, with an empirical line of research identifying a set of general-purpose sensory, perceptual, and learning mechanisms that guide knowledge acquisition across different domains and through development.

Abstract Mathematical Cognition

Author : Wolfgang Grodd
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889198162
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Abstract Mathematical Cognition written by Wolfgang Grodd and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of mathematics in our educational systems little is known about how abstract mathematical thinking emerges. Under the uniting thread of mathematical development, we hope to connect researchers from various backgrounds to provide an integrated view of abstract mathematical cognition. Much progress has been made in the last 20 years on how numeracy is acquired. Experimental psychology has brought to light the fact that numerical cognition stems from spatial cognition. The findings from neuroimaging and single cell recording experiments converge to show that numerical representations take place in the intraparietal sulcus. Further research has demonstrated that supplementary neural networks might be recruited to carry out subtasks; for example, the retrieval of arithmetic facts is done by the angular gyrus. Now that the neural networks in charge of basic mathematical cognition are identified, we can move onto the stage where we seek to understand how these basics skills are used to support the acquisition and use of abstract mathematical concepts.

Cognitive Development in Psychology

Author : Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
Publisher : Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Development in Psychology written by Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir and published by Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir. This book was released on with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophical foundations of cognitive development can be traced back to ancient Greece, where figures like Plato and Aristotle pondered the nature of knowledge and learning. Plato proposed that knowledge is inherently linked to the world of forms, suggesting that understanding is an innate quality discovered through recollection. In contrast, Aristotle emphasized empirical observation and inductive reasoning, positing that knowledge is acquired through experience. Such dichotomies set the stage for subsequent theories of cognitive development, where the juxtaposition of innate traits versus experiential learning remained a dominant discourse. During the Enlightenment, intellectual shifts further complicated understanding of cognition. John Locke's tabula rasa concept suggested that the mind begins as a blank slate, thus emphasizing environmental influences on learning. In stark contrast, René Descartes' rationalism introduced the idea that certain truths are inherent and accessible through reason alone. These contrasting perspectives on the origin of knowledge significantly influenced later developmental theorists, shaping their research questions and methodological approaches. The 19th century marked a critical shift toward empirical investigation of cognitive development. The advent of psychology as a formal discipline expanded the exploration of human cognition. Pioneers such as Ernst Weber and Gustav Fechner examined the relationship between physical stimuli and perception, enriching the understanding of how cognitive processes operate. Additionally, the work of Wilhelm Wundt laid the groundwork for experimental psychology, highlighting the importance of controlled environments in the study of cognition. By the late 19th century, the scientific community began to focus on developmental psychology, recognizing the importance of understanding cognitive processes across the lifespan.

Developmental Disabilities Abstracts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Developmental Disabilities Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities Abstracts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development

Author : Anne Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351530860
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development written by Anne Petersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume adopts a unique, multidisciplinary approach to the study of the development of the human brain and early behavior. It includes chapters by researchers from several disciplines whose work addresses specific aspects of brain-behavioral interactions in development. The chapters provide strong evidence that the development of both brain and behavior is a response to biological and environmental variations.Language is also discussed, and provides a useful example of biosocial development because linguistic and brain functions and development can be examined under controlled conditions of both genetic and environmental deprivation. Research in this area has produced particularly exciting results pointing to the universality of language capacity among humans and illuminating the processes by which language competence develops.Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development provides new views in the understanding of human nature and present new, biosocially oriented research directions that are unique in their focus.

Brain maturation and cognitive development

Author : Kathleen R. Gibson
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 1412844509
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Brain maturation and cognitive development written by Kathleen R. Gibson and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 1991 by Aldine De Gruyter."

Culture and Cognitive Development

Author : Geoffrey B. Saxe
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317728084
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Cognitive Development written by Geoffrey B. Saxe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers examining children's mathematics acquisition are now questioning the belief that children learn mathematics principally through formalized, in-school mathematics education. There is increasing evidence that children gain mathematical understanding through their participation in out-of-school cultural practices and that their mathematics only occasionally resembles what they learn in the classroom. Culture and Cognitive Development presents the latest research by Dr. Geoffrey Saxe on this issue. In examinations of the mathematical understandings of child candy sellers in an urban center in northeastern Brazil, Dr. Saxe finds sharp contrasts between mathematics as practiced in school and in real-world settings. In this unique research project he presents a penetrating conceptual treatment of the interplay between culture and cognitive development, filling a void in current research literature. Subjects examined include: the interplay between sociocultural and cognitive developmental processes the differences between math knowledge learned in and out of the classroom the ways math learning in the classroom is modified by children's out-of-school mathematics and, correspondingly, how practical out-of-school mathematics use is modified by formal education

Cognitive Development

Author : Sergio Morra
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135629730
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Development written by Sergio Morra and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and assume that cognitive development is divided into stages with qualitative differences. Unlike Piaget, however, they define the increasing complexity of the stages in accordance with the child’s information processing system, rather than in terms of logical properties. This volume illustrates these characteristics and evidences the exciting possibilities for neo-Piagetian research to build connections both with other theoretical approaches such as dynamic systems and with other fields such as brain science. The opening chapter provides a historical orientation, including a critical distinction between the "logical" and the "dialectical" Piaget. In subsequent chapters the major theories and experimental findings are reviewed, including Pascual-Leone's Theory of Constructive Operators, Halford's structuralist theory, Fischer's dynamic systems approach to skills, Case's theory of Central Conceptual Structures, Siegler’s microgenetic approach, and the proposals of Mounoud and Karmiloff-Smith, as well as the work of others, including Demetriou and de Ribaupierre. The interrelation of emotional and cognitive development is discussed extensively, as is relevant non neo-Piagetian research on information processing. The application of neo-Piagetian research to a variety of topics including children's problem solving, psychometrics, and education is highlighted. The book concludes with the authors' views on possibilities for an integrated neo-Piagetian approach to cognitive development.

Cognitive and Language Development in Children

Author : John Oates
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405110457
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive and Language Development in Children written by John Oates and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of a series of four books that forms part of the Open University course on child development. The series provides a detailed and thorough introduction to the central concepts, theories, issues and research evidence in developmental psychology. Cognitive and Language Development in Children gives an up-to-date and accessible account of how thinking and language develop during childhood. The book is innovative in its approach: it starts by considering cognition and language in infants and continues to weave together these two areas in subsequent chapters that cover aspects of their development through childhood. The chapters have been prepared by leading researchers and theorists in collaboration with members of the Open University course team. Building on the themes in The Foundations of Child Development, a previous book within the series, the editors provide a fully up-to-date, broad and engaging overview of the field, ranging from modern understandings of brain architecture and function to the social and cultural contexts of learning. The chapters have many features to assist and facilitate understanding, including defined learning outcomes, research summaries, activities, readings, definitions of key terms and section summaries.

Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition

Author : Elizabeth Meins
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134836503
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition written by Elizabeth Meins and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of social and cognitive development, and as such addresses issues which are of increasing interest to developmental psychologists. In the first two chapters, Meins outlines Bowlby's attachment theory and the research which it has inspired, and develops the theme of a secure attachment relationship providing children with a sense of themselves as effective agents in their interactions with the world (self-efficacy). The next five chapters describe a longitudinal study of a sample of children whose security of attachment was assessed in infancy. Security-related differences are reported in the areas of object/person permanence, language acquisition, symbolic play, maternal tutoring and theory of mind, but no differences were found in general cognitive ability. Meins argues that the wide-ranging advantages enjoyed by the securely attached children are best explained in terms of their greater self-efficacy and social flexibility, nurtured by a particular kind of early infant-mother interaction. This book's major contribution is in its approach to explaining why securely attached children may be more self-effective and flexible in social interactions. Meins attempts to account for these differences within a Vygotskian framework, focusing on the secure dyad's greater ability to function within the zone of proximal development. She suggests that a mother's mind-mindedness (the propensity to treat one's infant as an individual with a mind) is an important factor in determining her ability to interact sensitively with her child. In the final chapter, Meins considers how the Vygotskian approach can complement and extend existing theories of attachment, and suggests some ways in which future research might address outstanding questions in this rapidly advancing field.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology

Author : Harold L. Miller, Jr.
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506340105
Total Pages : 1173 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology written by Harold L. Miller, Jr. and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 1173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together a team of international scholars, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology examines the contemporary landscape of all the key theories and theorists, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Key features include: · Approximately 300 signed entries fill two volumes · Entries are followed by Cross-References and Further Readings · A Reader′s Guide in the front matter groups entries thematically · A detailed Index and the Cross-References provide for effective search-and-browse in the electronic version · Back matter includes a Chronology of theory within the field of psychology, a Master Bibliography, and an annotated Resource Guide to classic books in this field, journals, associations, and their websites The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology is an exceptional and scholarly source for researching the theory of psychology, making it a must-have reference for all academic libraries.

Learning and the Development of Cognition

Author : Barbel Inhelder
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317673875
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Learning and the Development of Cognition written by Barbel Inhelder and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child. In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years’ research of the Geneva School, the authors carried the pioneering investigations of Jean Piaget to a new and remarkable level. As Piaget said in his foreword to the book: ‘The novelty of the findings, the clarity of the theoretical interpretation, and the sometimes even excessive caution of the conclusions enable the reader to separate clearly the experimental results from the authors’ theoretical tenets.’ The authors’ learning experiments with children were designed to examine the processes that lead to the acquisition of certain key concepts, such as conservation of matter and length. Detailed study of the progress of each individual subject revealed a number of features characteristic of situations that create conflicts in the child’s mind and certain regularities in the way these conflicts are resolved. Such data threw new light on the dynamics of the development of cognitive structures as well as on basic mechanisms of learning at the time.