Typical and Atypical Child Development 4 Cognition, Intelligence and Learning

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-27394-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Topics from Child and Adolescent Psychology

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

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tetzchner, Stephen Von

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Autismus und Asperger-Syndrom
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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