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Cognitive Developmental Change

Cognitive Developmental Change

Cognitive Developmental Change

Theories, Models and Measurement
Andreas Demetriou , University of Cyprus
Athanassios Raftopoulos , University of Cyprus
March 2005
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9780521825795

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    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 2011
    Paperback
    9780521184007
    426 pages
    229 × 152 × 22 mm
    0.57kg
    Available

    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.
      Contributors
    • Andreas Demetriou, Athanassios Raftopoulos, Constantinos P. Constantinou, Hans van der Maas, Brenda Jansen, Maartje Raijmakers, Marc Schwartz, Kurt W. Fischer, Joke Torbeyns, Laurence Arnaud, Patrick Lemaire, Leaven Verschaffel, Mark D. Lewis, Geoffrey B. Saxe, Sharon Griffin, Philip Adey, Elena Grigorenko, Paul A. O'keefe, Paul van Geert, Jan-Eric Gustafssoln

    • Editors
    • Andreas Demetriou , University of Cyprus
    • Athanassios Raftopoulos , University of Cyprus