How the Child's Mind Develops

How the Child's Mind Develops

by David Cohen
How the Child's Mind Develops

How the Child's Mind Develops

by David Cohen

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Overview

How do we get from helpless baby to knowing teenager? What impact do iPads, social media, video games, and evolving technology have on the way children's minds develop?

How we learn to think, perceive, remember, talk, reason, and learn is a central topic in psychology - and one that sees constant new research. How the Child's Mind Develops discusses the latest studies and covers all the controversies that have dogged the subject for nearly 150 years. David Cohen examines the fundamental issues of how children learn to read and write, of how their intellectual abilities are measured and the development of their morality. This fully updated Fourth Edition incorporates issues of cultural differences in brain development and skin-to-skin contact, and how they effect development, addiction to social media, the effect of trauma and stress, and emotional development.

This book is an integrated and thought-provoking account of the central issues in child development. Students, parents, and professionals will find it an invaluable introduction.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032602523
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/15/2024
Edition description: 4th ed.
Pages: 228
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Cohen is a psychologist, film maker, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. His film on the Soham murders, When Holly Went Missing, was nominated for a BAFTA award.

Table of Contents

List of illustrationsvii
Introduction1
1The developing brain9
2The logical child: Piaget's theory of cognitive development31
3Egocentric or social animals? The work of Lev Vygotsky57
4The development of a moral sense73
5Other people and other minds87
6The development of memory109
7Measuring children's cognitive development129
8Nature or nurture?149
9Cognitive development in the classroom: Reading, writing and arithmetic167
10Television, toys and the child as consumer183
References193
Index203
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