Cognitive Developmental Change: Theories, Models and Measurement

ISBN-13: 9780521825795 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 426 str.

Andreas Demetriou; Athanassios Raftopoulos; George Butterworth

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.