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Psychology Press
154 Pages
by
Psychology Press
154 Pages
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Psychology Press
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The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of development is within the child and is largely unaffected by his or her experience of social interaction: on... Read more
Introduction. Theoretical Perspectives: Cognitive Development as Primarily Endogenous. Theoretical Perspectives: Cognitive Development as Largely Exogenous. Parent-child Interaction as a Source of Cognitive Development: Empirical Studies. Is the Apparent Effect of Scaffolding an Epiphenomenon? Parents and Children with Scaffolding Problems. Concluding Remarks.
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Sara Meadows
