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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.
The content of this topic book is taken from Stephen von Tetzchner's core textbook Child and Adolescent Psychology: Typical and Atypical Development. The comprehensive volume offers a complete overview of child and adolescent development - for more information visit www.routledge.com/9781138823396
Contents
Introduction
Part I Theories of Cognitive Development
Cognition
Domains, modules and activities
Logical constructivism
Information processing
Nativism
Social constructionism
Disparity and integration
Summary of Part I
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Part II Attention, Memory and Executive Function
Basic Cognitive Functions
Attention
Memory
Executive Functions
Summary of Part II
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Part III Conceptual Development and Reasoning
Concepts and Reasoning
Early conceptions of space, time and causality
Object concepts
Reasoning
Atypical development
Summary of Part III
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Part IV Mind Understanding
The Human Mind
Visual perspective
Private speech
Early understanding of desires and beliefs
Further development of mind understanding
Individual and cultural differences
Atypical development of mind understanding
Summary of Part IIII
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Part V Intelligence
The Concept of Intelligence
Theories of intelligence
Intelligence tests
Stability and variation in IQ scores
Nature, nurture and intelligence
Gender differences
Ethnicity and intelligence
Changing norms: The Flynn effect
School performance and intelligence
Atypical development
Summary of Part IV
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Part VI Learning and Instruction
Learning and Adaptation
Types of learning
Two developmental perspectives on education
Cooperation among children
Atypical development: Learning disorders
Learning disorders and mental disorders
Summary of Part VI
Core Issues
Suggestions for further reading
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
