Cognitive Developmental Change - Theories, Models and Measurement

Klappentext This text examines the what, why and how of developmental change from a diverse range of perspectives. Zusammenfassung A fascinating contribution to developmental! cognitive and educational science by bringing together uniquely diverse perspectives for analysing the dynamics of change. Chapters cover key theories of cognitive change! the factors that affect change including neurological! emotional and socio-cultural factors and the latest methods for measuring and modelling change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the what, how and why of developmental change: The emergence of a new paradigm Andreas Demetriou and Athanassios Raftopoulos; 1. Mind, intelligence and development: a cognitive, differential and developmental theory of intelligence Andreas Demetriou; 2. Types of cognitive change: a dynamical, connectionist account Athanassios Raftopoulos and Constantinos P. Constantinou; 3. Developmental patterns in proportional reasoning Hans van der Maas, Brenda Jansen and Maartje Raijmakers; 4. Building general knowledge and skill: cognition and microdevelopment in science learning Marc Schwartz and Kurt W. Fischer; 5. Cognitive change as strategy change Joke Torbeyns, Laurence Arnaud, Patrick Lemaire and Leaven Verschaffel; 6. The emergence of mind in the emotional brain Mark D. Lewis; 7. Practices of quantification from a socio-cultural perspective Geoffrey B. Saxe; 8. Contributions of central conceptual structure theory to education Sharon Griffin; 9. Accelerating the development of general cognitive processing Philip Adey; 10. Dealing with change: manifestations, measurements and methods Elena Grigorenko and Paul A. O'Keefe; 11. Dynamic modelling of cognitive development: time, situatedness and variability Paul van Geert; 12. Modelling individual differences in change through latent variable growth and mixture growth modelling: basic principles and empirical examples Jan-Eric Gustafssoln; Index.

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• Authors: Andreas Demetriou, Andreas (University of Cyprus) Raftopou Demetriou, Andreas Raftopoulos Demetriou
• Assisted by: Andreas Demetriou (Editor), Demetriou Andreas (Editor), Athanassios Raftopoulos (Editor), Raftopoulos Athanassios (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521184007
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18400-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive; Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Child & developmental psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology