This textbook employs a novel design that will be of immense help to both students and instructors and is intended to be read at two levels: at the first level, it provides a fully referenced explanatory account of experimental research on cognitive development with complete attention to the needs of students who have never been exposed to experimental methodology nor studies in cognitive development before. At the second level, and mapped directly onto numbered sub-sections within the text, the author uses illustrative panels designed along the lines of PowerPoint presentations to summarise studies and key findings, employing lots of pictorial material together with bullet-points to give vividness and texture to the material covered. These panels are replicated on the accompanying companion website in PowerPoint for lecturers and students to make further use of in teaching and revision. Revision points are provided at the end of every chapter. INDICE: Introduction: Studying how the mind growsSensory development and visual perception during early infancyPerceptual development during the first year: the multisensory infantSensorimotor development in infancy: gaining control in a physical environmentSensorimotor development in infancy: the elements of social interactionThe emergence of speechThe acquisition of word meanings and the dawn of phrase speechThe emergence of sentence structureLearning grammarPerceptual development after infancyPerceptual development and recognition memoryMemory for scenes, routes and eventsUnderstanding and reasoning about categoriesUnderstanding and reasoning about time and spaceRepresenting other minds and the development of symbolic thoughtSymbolic reasoning and logicomathematical thought
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-2880-9
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha Publicación: 12/03/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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