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.
The topic books in this series draw on international research in the field and are informed by biological, social and cultural perspectives, offering explanations of developmental phenomena with a focus on how children and adolescents at different ages actually think, feel and act. In this volume, Stephen von Tetzchner explains key topics including: theories of cognitive development; attention, memory and executive function; conceptual development and reasoning, theory of mind; intelligence; and learning and instruction.
Together with a companion website that offers topic-based quizzes, lecturer PowerPoint slides and sample essay questions, Typical and Atypical Child and Adolescent Development 4: Cognition, Intelligence and Learning is an essential text for all students of developmental psychology, as well as those working in the fields of child development, developmental disabilities and special education.
Author(s): Stephen von Tetzchner
Series: Topics from Child and Adolescent Psychology Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 346
City: London
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Contents
Introduction
Part I Theories of Cognitive Development
1 Cognition
2 Domains, Modules and Activities
3 Logical Constructivism
4 Information Processing
5 Nativism
6 Social Constructivism
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 IV
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 V
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
Endorsements
