1st Edition

Typical and Atypical Child Development 4 Cognition, Intelligence and Learning

By Stephen von Tetzchner Copyright 2023
    346 Pages 23 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    346 Pages 23 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    346 Pages 23 Color & 22 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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

    Introduction

    Part I Theories of Cognitive Development

      1. Cognition
      2. Domains, modules and activities
      3. Logical constructivism
      4. Information processing
      5. Nativism
      6. Social constructionism
      7. Disparity and integration
      8. Summary of Part I

        Core Issues

        Suggestions for further reading

        Part II Attention, Memory and Executive Function

      9. Basic Cognitive Functions
      10. Attention
      11. Memory
      12. Executive Functions
      13. Summary of Part II

        Core Issues

        Suggestions for further reading

         

        Part III Conceptual Development and Reasoning

      14. Concepts and Reasoning
      15. Early conceptions of space, time and causality
      16. Object concepts
      17. Reasoning
      18. Atypical development
      19. Summary of Part III

        Core Issues

        Suggestions for further reading

         

        Part IV Mind Understanding

      20. The Human Mind
      21. Visual perspective
      22. Private speech
      23. Early understanding of desires and beliefs
      24. Further development of mind understanding
      25. Individual and cultural differences
      26. Atypical development of mind understanding
      27. Summary of Part IIII

        Core Issues

        Suggestions for further reading

         

        Part V Intelligence

      28. The Concept of Intelligence
      29. Theories of intelligence
      30. Intelligence tests
      31. Stability and variation in IQ scores
      32. Nature, nurture and intelligence
      33. Gender differences
      34. Ethnicity and intelligence
      35. Changing norms: The Flynn effect
      36. School performance and intelligence
      37. Atypical development
      38. Summary of Part IV

        Core Issues

        Suggestions for further reading

         

        Part VI Learning and Instruction

      39. Learning and Adaptation
      40. Types of learning
      41. Two developmental perspectives on education
      42. Cooperation among children
      43. Atypical development: Learning disorders
      44. Learning disorders and mental disorders

    Summary of Part VI

    Core Issues

    Suggestions for further reading

    Glossary

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

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

    The individual topic books in the Topics from Child and Adolescent Psychology are drawn from Stephen von Tetzchner’s comprehensive core textbook, Child and Adolescent Psychology.

    Praise for the core textbook:

    ‘Extremely useful text for students and practitioners alike.’ Dr. Graham Music, Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London, UK.

    ‘Illustrates how knowledge about typical and atypical development can be integrated and used to highlight fundamental processes of human growth and maturation.’ Dr. John Coleman, PhD, OBE, UK.