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465-102 CDS12 Cognitive Development | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Sharne Rolfe |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Lectures and tutorials totalling 36 hours |
Subject Description | A study of the development of cognition in the young child from the earliest perceptual, memory and attentional capacities of the infant. Critical examination of relevant psychological theories including Learning Theory, Piaget's Cognitive-Developmental Theory, and Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory in their original and more recent forms. The contributions of social context and brain maturation. Introduction to research methodology in developmental psychology. The Information Processing Approach to understanding strategies of memory and attending. Models of thought, intelligence, and creativity including the Psychometric Approach, Sternberg's Triarchic Theory and Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Introduction to the concepts of the Theory of Mind and metacognition. |
Assessment | Assignments totalling 2000 words, and a 2-hour written examination. |
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