We spoke to lecturer in psychology and language researcher Dr Sam Durrant from LuCiD to help you make sense of cognitive development, the ideas that surround it, like Piaget's Theory, and some ...

Created with Sketch. Metacognition, or the awareness of your own thinking and thought processes, is recognized as an important step in cognitive development—for example, when a child reads a ...

The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people are averse to inconsistencies within their own minds. It offers one explanation for why people sometimes make an effort to adjust their ...

Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory argued that children’s cognitive and social development is deeply influenced by their cultural environment and tools like language. Cross-cultural research supports ...

Our program trains students in basic theories of human cognition, and the practice and interpretation of emperical cognitive and developmental research. In our Master of Education program, our ...

1. BIOLOGICAL THEORY: Randy Thornhill, The Biology of Human Rape, 39 Jurimetrics J. 137(1999) at 143: Selection, or differential reproductive success among individuals due to trait differences, is the ...

Pollutants from cars and power plants can travel to children's brains, causing inflammation and potential long-term ...

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development. A Save the Children report released Tuesday found that ...

School systems seeking instructional technology coordinators and teachers who are knowledgeable about cognitive and developmental theories and research. Publishers and software companies looking for ...