Cognitive Developmental Change

Andreas Demetriou is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cyprus. He is on the editorial board of several leading journals and has published over 120 book chapters and journal articles in the areas of cognitive development and education. Athanassios Raftopoulos is Associate Professor of Epistemology and Cognitive Science in the Department of Educational Sciences, University of Cyprus. He has published extensively on the foundations of cognition, research methods and conceptual change.

• Introduction: the what, how and why of developmental change: The emergence of a new paradigm Andreas Demetriou and Athanassios Raftopoulos; 1. Mind, intelligence and development: a cognitive, differential and developmental theory of intelligence Andreas Demetriou; 2. Types of cognitive change: a dynamical, connectionist account Athanassios Raftopoulos and Constantinos P. Constantinou; 3. Developmental patterns in proportional reasoning Hans van der Maas, Brenda Jansen and Maartje Raijmakers; 4. Building general knowledge and skill: cognition and microdevelopment in science learning Marc Schwartz and Kurt W. Fischer; 5. Cognitive change as strategy change Joke Torbeyns, Laurence Arnaud, Patrick Lemaire and Leaven Verschaffel; 6. The emergence of mind in the emotional brain Mark D. Lewis; 7. Practices of quantification from a socio-cultural perspective Geoffrey B. Saxe; 8. Contributions of central conceptual structure theory to education Sharon Griffin; 9. Accelerating the development of general cognitive processing Philip Adey; 10. Dealing with change: manifestations, measurements and methods Elena Grigorenko and Paul A. O'Keefe; 11. Dynamic modelling of cognitive development: time, situatedness and variability Paul van Geert; 12. Modelling individual differences in change through latent variable growth and mixture growth modelling: basic principles and empirical examples Jan-Eric Gustafssoln; Index.