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