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003			CUTN
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008			140718s2015 caua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781412928809
020			_a9781412928816 (pbk)
041			_aEnglish
042			_apcc
082	0	0	_a155.413 _223 _bMCG
100	1		_aMcGonigle, Maggie,
245	1	0	_aUnderstanding cognitive development / _cMaggie McGonigle-Chalmers.
300			_axiii, 402 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
500			_aUnderstanding Cognitive Development provides a fresh, evidence-based research perspective on the story of children's cognitive development in the first ten years of human life. Starting with a brief survey of the key theoretical positions that have come to define developmental psychology, the textbook then focuses on the different cognitive abilities as they emerge throughout early development. Uniquely, it examines these in terms of their interdependence; that is how skills such as perception, memory, language and reasoning relate to one another. This holistic treatment allows students to see the many important intersections in this critical phase of human life development. 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. Rich in academic coverage, including a widespread database of the most important empirical research in the field, this textbook will be essential reading for students of cognitive development and developmental psychology across psychology and education.
505			_aIntroduction: Studying how the mind grows Sensory development and visual perception during early infancy Perceptual development during the first year: the multisensory infant Sensorimotor development in infancy: gaining control in a physical environment Sensorimotor development in infancy: the elements of social interaction The emergence of speech The acquisition of word meanings and the dawn of phrase speech The emergence of sentence structure Learning grammar Perceptual development after infancy Perceptual development and recognition memory Memory for scenes, routes and events Understanding and reasoning about categories Understanding and reasoning about time and space Representing other minds and the development of symbolic thought Symbolic reasoning and logicomathematical thinking
650		0	_aCognition in children.
650		0	_aDevelopmental psychology.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
100	1		_d1951- _eauthor.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 364-393) and index.
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d2 _eepcn _f20 _gy-gencatlg
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