Course Objectives
- Develop an understanding of basic concepts of cognitive development.
- Comprehend factors that set the biological bases of cognitive development.
- Identify sociocultural perspectives on cognitive development.
- Develop an understanding of infant perception and cognition.
- Characterize the significant aspects of children’s learning to use symbols.
- Recognize the ways of young children’s learning to think on their own.
- Recognize memory development.
- Develop an understanding of language development from a cognitive development perspective.
- Recognize social cognition.
- Identify the relationship between schooling and cognition.
- Understand the approaches to the study of intelligence.
- Recognize modern research perspectives on cognitive development.