Cognitive Development

Investigating the Cognitive Theories of Career Development

Objective: There are several theories proposed on the career development and researchers have classified these theories in different categories. Career-related cognitive theory is one of the latest categories including two theories: social cognitive theory of career development and cognitive information processing. The current study seeks to compare these two cognitive theories of career develo...

Cognitive Development

To find out what people think about such questions, we asked a sample of children (aged 9), adolescents (aged 13–15), younger adults (aged 21–26), and older adults (aged 70–76) how they believe things like general knowledge, memory, and thinking speed (also called cognitive speed) change across the lifespan. The sample consisted of an equal number of males and females in each group and the stud...

Cognitive Development

Economists and developmental psychologists have long been concerned with the factors that promote positive developmental outcomes in children. However, their lenses differ in significant ways. Economists investigate the effects of parents’ skills and monetary and time resources on their children’s educational attainment, health, consumption and ultimate wealth (Aiyagari, Rao & Greenwood, 1999; ...

Time in Cognitive Development

The topic of this chapter is the development of temporal understanding, and in particular the question as to when children can be said to be able to grasp temporal concepts such as 'before' and 'after'. One specific idea we wish to look at is that the development of temporal understanding, and the emergence of a grasp of temporal concepts, is closely linked to developments in children's underst...

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