Cognitive Developmental Change
Theories, Models and Measurement
Published on 6. January 2005
Book
Hardback
426 pages
978-0-521-82579-5 (ISBN)
Description
Cognitive Developmental Change makes a fascinating contribution to the fields of developmental, cognitive and educational science by bringing together a uniquely diverse range of perspectives for analysing the dynamics of change. Connecting traditional Piagetian, information processing, and psychometric approaches with newer frameworks for the analysis of developmental change it provides the reader with an account of the latest theory and research at the time of publication. The contributors to the volume, all internationally respected experts, were asked when writing to consider three main aspects of cognitive change. Its object (what changes in the mind during development), its nature (how does change occur?) and its causes (why does change occur? Or, what are the internal and external factors responsible for cognitive change?). As a result chapters cover key theories of cognitive change, the factors that affect change including neurological, emotional and socio-cultural factors and methods for measuring and modelling change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
839 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-82579-5 (9780521825795)
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Andreas Demetriou | Athanassios Raftopoulos
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Theories, Models and Measurement
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Theories, Models and Measurement
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Persons
Andreas Demetriou is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cyprus. He is on the editorial board of several leading journals and has published over 120 book chapters and journal articles in the areas of cognitive development and education. Athanassios Raftopoulos is Associate Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus. He has published extensively on the foundations of cognition, research methods and conceptual change.
Content
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.