Cognitive Developmental Change
Connecting traditional Piagetian, information processing, and psychometric approaches with newer frameworks and tools for the assessment and analysis of change, this book provides a cutting-edge account of the latest theory and research. 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.
- Brings together unique range of diverse perspectives on the processes of cognitive change
- Explores all aspects of cognitive change - the what, why and how.
- Fascinating research and theory from leading group of international experts
Product details
February 2011Paperback
9780521184007
426 pages
229 × 152 × 22 mm
0.57kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.