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Whether you're a teacher, a psychology student or just a baffled parent, if you've ever wanted to take the top off a child's head, peer inside and see what's really going on inside those funny little brains of theirs, David Cohen has the answer. An entertaining, comprehensive, and highly readable book. - Virginia Ironside
This is an excellent book. It summarises a great many issues in cognitive development in ways that are clear and accessible to the reader. - Nicky Hayes
This is an excellent book. It summarises a great many issues in cognitive development in ways that are clear and accessible to the reader. - Nicky Hayes
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* How do we get from helpless baby to knowing, ironic teenager?
* Is cognition a question of learning and environment or heredity?
* What impact do television and computers have on cognitive development?
Cognitive Development - how we learn to think, perceive, remember, talk, reason and learn - is a central topic in the field of psychology. In this highly readable book, David Cohen discusses the key theories, research and controversies that have shaped and informed our knowledge of how the child's mind develops. He shows how the questions and issues that have intrigued psychologists over the past hundred years or so relate to the child growing up in the 21st century.
This book is for everyone who lives with, works with or studies children. Issues such as learning to read and write, performance in the classroom, and measuring intelligence and ability are covered, as are child crime and the development of morality. The effects on cognitive development of social change and increased exposure to television and computers are also discussed.
How the Child's Mind Develops provides an integrated and thought-provoking account of the central issues in cognitive development. It will provide the professional, parent and student with an invaluable introduction to the development of the mind.
* Is cognition a question of learning and environment or heredity?
* What impact do television and computers have on cognitive development?
Cognitive Development - how we learn to think, perceive, remember, talk, reason and learn - is a central topic in the field of psychology. In this highly readable book, David Cohen discusses the key theories, research and controversies that have shaped and informed our knowledge of how the child's mind develops. He shows how the questions and issues that have intrigued psychologists over the past hundred years or so relate to the child growing up in the 21st century.
This book is for everyone who lives with, works with or studies children. Issues such as learning to read and write, performance in the classroom, and measuring intelligence and ability are covered, as are child crime and the development of morality. The effects on cognitive development of social change and increased exposure to television and computers are also discussed.
How the Child's Mind Develops provides an integrated and thought-provoking account of the central issues in cognitive development. It will provide the professional, parent and student with an invaluable introduction to the development of the mind.
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Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot boasted his superior brain let him solve murders that baffled Scotland Yard, so he was always careful to keep his little grey cells warm. Read the first page
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Well, somewhere down the list of books I need to read before beginning teaching practice was this one. Hidden amongst a plethora of more academic and turgid tomes, this slim but dense volume came as a readable pleasure. However, as I was new to the academics of child development, I was glad that I had got some of the basic theories down pat first! The best part os that Cohen is bang up to date and thinks far beyond just regurgitating the facts, the facts and nothing but the facts!! This truly is a book that would be an interesting read for anyone who has an interest in child development or wants soemthing new to muse about.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a trully inspirering book, and as it says in my summery, intreging!!! David Cohen's use of words are outstanding and describes in detail the way a childs mind works!!!
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This book is great for professionals who are not in the field of psychology. It is historical, factual, summative, and at the same time easy to read - with a bit of British humor in place:). It does help you understand the mind of the child.
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