Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development is a benchmark in understanding child psychology and was used to develop curriculum for a number of years. This video covers the important aspects of Piaget's Theory with relevant examples and...

Howcast - Learn what cognitive development milestones a child should reach by age 2 from Watch Me Grow founder Shirael Pollack in this Howcast video.

Learn what cognitive development milestones a child should reach by age 4 from Watch Me Grow founder Shirael Pollack in this Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn what cognitive development milestones a child should reach by age 3 from Watch Me Grow founder Shirael Pollack in this Howcast video.

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Howcast - Learn what cognitive development milestones a child should reach by age 6 and age 7 from Watch Me Grow founder Shirael Pollack in this Howcast video.

Kohlberg's Moral Development derives inspiration from the Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development, and develops a specific aspect from it. It is important in understanding child psychology and delves into the aspect of how morals are...

How does our knowledge grow? It turns out there are some different ideas about that. Schemas, Four-Stage Theory of Cognitive Development, and Vygotsky's Theory of Scaffolding all play different roles but the basic idea is...

This video discusses Vygotsky's theory of psychosocial development, which emphasizes the importance of social interaction and language in learning. It explores the concept of the zone of proximal development and how a more knowledgeable...

Uncover the fascinating sensory world of the fetus during its time in the womb. From the first stirrings of movement to developing taste preferences influenced by maternal diet, this video reveals how fetuses actively experience their...

Parents and babies smile, laugh and coo at each other, but scientists still have a lot of questions about how these interactions help infants develop.



"Parents tend to put a lot of emotional...

What Postpartum Depression Really Looks Like. This is part one of a series I’m doing on women’s mental health topics.

This video is based on a viewer question from Dr. Mohammed El Sherif who is a obstetrician...

Vygotsky's Theory of Social Development is as much a benchmark as Piaget's theory in understanding child psychology and cognition. It was, and is still used to develop curriculum the world over. This video covers the important aspects of...

Neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study: the first-ever randomized study of how family income changes children's cognitive, emotional and brain development. She and a team of economists and...

Find out about research into the impact of the environment on education outcomes, which has concluded that a mix of high quality education and social development work best for young children. Enriched environments are important for brain...

The Jesuits used to argue that if they could get someone in their church by age five, they’d have them hooked for life.



Nobel Laureate James Heckman doesn’t go quite so far in his ideas for early childhood...

Schemas (or schemata) are a common concept in cognitive and developmental psychology. This video introduces the concept by outlining what a schema is, what is does, and how it is formed.

The exploration experiences that children have at an early age play an important role in cognitive development. A research team from the University of Delaware, led by physical therapy professor Cole Galloway, is working on ways to help...

Why do we gesture? What role do simple hand movements play in some of the most fundamental aspects of language? Susan Goldin-Meadow has dedicated her career to asking, and answering, those big questions. Her eponymous lab at...

The video discusses the five cognitive skills that make up social intelligence: sympathy, self-awareness, empathy, metacognition, and theory of mind. It explains how these skills develop over time and how they allow us to understand...

Alan Leslie was an undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh and received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (where it is called a D.Phil.) in 1979/80. For a number of years he was a Medical Research Council Senior Scientist at...

You use your brain's executive function every day -- it's how you do things like pay attention, plan ahead and control impulses. Can you improve it to change for the better? With highlights from her research on child development,...

Compared to most animals in the vast kingdom, humans have one of the longest childhoods. And you might think this is so we have time to develop our advanced thinking skills, but scientists think it might not be that simple.

Basic Opening Strategies | Chess | Kids Academy Chess is one of the best and the most important games especially for your little one because chess comes with the ability to help your child with his cognitive development. If your little...