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All Psych: Chapter 3: Section 3: Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development
Erikson and Piaget both studied human behavior to determine that we develop in the same system. While Piaget focused on cognitive development, solely intellectual, Erikson was drawn to explore the systematic stages of human psychosocial...
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Harvard University: Project Zero: Artful Thinking
Find engaging ways to integrate visual art and music into regular classroom instruction and strengthen cognitive thinking skills and abilities to reason creatively from multiple perspectives. Get great classroom questioning tips, case...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Higher Education: Infancy
Click from here to lists of links on infancy, including physical, cognitive, social, and language development.
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Sage Publishing: Play and the Learning Environment
Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition, and social competence. This chapter discusses the definition of the physical environment and play, the defining characteristics of...
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Pre History of Cognitive Science: Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy 1621
This site tells of Robert Burton's ideas and opinions on Cognitive Science; the site helps explain Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy."
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W3 C: Making Content Usable for People With Cognitive and Learning Disabilities
This document is for people who make Web content (Web pages) and Web applications. It gives advice on how to make content usable for people with learning and cognitive disabilities. The Table of Contents can be accessed by clicking an...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Companies: Critical Thinking Exercises
10 valuable critical thinking exercises ranging in subject matter. Includes questions and exercises regarding biological development, language usage, morals, values and ethics, and thought cycles.
Virginia Tech
Virginia Cooperative Extension: Publications: Adolescent Growth and Development
During adolescence, teens begin to change physically, cognitively, and psychosocially in preparation for adulthood. Comprehensive article, aimed primarily at an adult readership, describes how adolescents develop.
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Eric: Pervasive Developmental Disorders
The ERIC Council for Exceptional Children offers basic information about Pervasive Development Disorders in children with delay or deviance in their social, language, motor, or cognitive development.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Piaget's Theory: One Cup of Water Is Less Than One Cup of Water
In this human behavior science fair project, the student will learn about Piaget's developmental stages and the Theory of Conservation. The student will investigate the age at which children understand the equality of numbers and mass....
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
Crescent Public Schools
Crescent Public Schools: Educational Theories
Presents some of the major theories of learning, their principles, and how they impact learning. Covers constructivism, behaviorism, Jean Piaget's developmental model, brain-based learning theory, control theory of motivation,...
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Massey University: Vygotsky
An introduction to some of the basic concepts of Vygotskyean theory. Sections on higher and lower mental functions, intramental vs. intermental abilities, and the zone of proximal development.
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Psychologist World: Attachment Theory
An article defining the development of psychology's Attachment Theory, originally identified with that term, by John Bowlby. Identify other contributors to the scientific theory and whether only children experience it.
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg University: Personality Theories: Jean Piaget
This is an excellent resource on the life and work of the Swiss educational psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
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A Short Biography of Jean Piaget
The Piaget Society provides a short, easy-to-understand biography on Jean Piaget (1896-1980 CE), including a paragraph on his developmental theories.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
Fas: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment
Read about a 1996 study on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Learn about how FAS is caused and detected, and how this disease can affect one's physical and cognitive development. Included, are recommendations for preventing FAS through...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: A Change of Mind
Explore the cognitive development of deception and devise a game or mock trial in which one determines who is lying and who is telling the truth. Research brain activity and make a working model of neural divergences using a set of...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Nature vs. Nurture
Study what roles genetics and the environment play in human behavioral development. This is a learning module which includes the reading assignment, a quiz, and PowerPoint program.
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Massey University: Beyond the Individual Social Antimony
This is a paper discussing Piaget and Vygotsky. It compares their similarities and differences. There is a large section on social origins of development.
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Oikos.org: Jean Piaget
"The basic reason for this international attention was the unquestionable fact that Piaget was the founding father of a branch of psychology that tries to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, how it grows and how it comes to know."...
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Early Childhood News: How Dramatic Play Can Enhance Learning
Dramatic play allows children to develop skills in such areas as abstract thinking, literacy, math, and social studies. In order to derive the full benefits from dramatic play as it relates to learning, early educators should "set the...
New York University
New York University: Becoming a Member of Society Through Socialization
Read this study of socialization, and find out why it is so crucial to human development.
Indiana University
Iu: Robert J. Sternberg (1949 ): Cognitive Psychologist
Details the life and work of Robert Sternberg. Sections include: Education, Career, Major Contributions, Ideas and Interests, Publications, References.