Ken Richardson

Models Of Cognitive Development (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In spite of its obvious importance and popularity, the field of cognitive development remains highly fragmented due to the vast diversity of models of what knowledge and reasoning are, and how they develop. This new Classic Edition of Models of Cognitive Development aims to overcome this barrier through its careful introduction, illustrated examples, and approach to helping students think more critically about the subject.

In this significant work, Richardson provides students, researchers, and comparative theoreticians with a cohesive understanding of the area by organizing diverse schools, frameworks, and approaches according to a much smaller set of underlying assumptions or preconceptions, which themselves can be historically interrelated. By understanding these, it's possible to find pathways around the area more confidently as a whole, to see the "wood" as well as the theoretical trees, and be able to react to individual models more critically and constructively.

The Classic Edition of this core text will be essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students of cognitive development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000228014
• Artikelnr.: 57124615

Autorenporträt

Ken Richardson is a bio-psychologist, author, and former lecturer at the Open University, UK. He has written many research papers and several books on the evolution and functions of intelligent systems and the science and ideology of cognitive ability (including IQ) testing.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Nativist Models. Introduction. Contemporary Nativism. Natural Mechanics
and Natural Computations. Development of Concepts and Categories. The
Modular Mind. Smart Infants. Hard and Soft Nativism. Practical
Applications. Criticisms of Nativist Models. Evolution and Nativism. 2.
Associationist Models. Introduction. Behaviourism. Cognitive
Associationism. Semantic Networks. Developmental Models. Concepts.
Covariations, Causes, Rules and Schemas. Applications of Associationist
Models. Criticisms of Associationism. 3. Constructivist Models.
Introduction. Gestalt Psychology. Modern Schema Theory. Mental Models.
Mandler's Theory. Piaget's Theory. Cognition in Context. Other Criticisms
of Piaget's Theory. Piaget's New Theory. Practical Applications of
Constructivism. Criticisms of Constructivism in General. 4. Sociocognitive
Models. Introduction. Social Nativism. Social Associationism. Social
Constructivism. Piaget and Vygotsky Compared. 5. Models Mixed and Models
New. Introduction. Nativism with Constructivism. Nativism with
Associationism. Nativism with Constructivism and Associationism.
Connectionism. Ecological Realism Theory. Dynamic Systems Theory. Cognitive
Hyperstructures. A Confluence of Models? References. Author Index. Subject
Index.