Main description:

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