Cognitive and Language Development in Children

by John Oates (Editor)

This is one of a series of four books that forms part of the Open University course on child development. The series provides a detailed and thorough introduction to the central concepts, theories, issues and research evidence in developmental psychology.

Cognitive and Language Development in Children gives an up-to-date and accessible account of how thinking and language develop during childhood. The book is innovative in its it starts by considering cognition and language in infants and continues to weave together these two areas in subsequent chapters that cover aspects of their development through childhood. The chapters have been prepared by leading researchers and theorists in collaboration with members of the Open University course team. Building on the themes in The Foundations of Child Development, a previous book within the series, the editors provide a fully up-to-date, broad and engaging overview of the field, ranging from modern understandings of brain architecture and function to the social and cultural contexts of learning.

The chapters have many features to assist and facilitate understanding, including defined learning outcomes, research summaries, activities, readings, definitions of key terms and section summaries.

Genres: Psychology

Paperback

First published April 23, 2004

About the author

John Oates is Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at the Open University.


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Reviews

[V]

Informative, well written

[Déya Chadwick]

Oh God!!! Heavy reading, far too much information to keep in my head. It is taking all of my time this book, however I have no choice but read it until the end if I want to complete my Uni model.

[Debs]

Interesting but even for a course book this is really heavy going. Great insight at a level 2 degree course book though

[Jessie Elizabeth]

now f*** off!!!