Cognitive Development

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Educational Programmes

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1, 2 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Cognitive development is one of the most elaborated and intensively evolving areas of cognitive psychology. The course will consider the specifics of the development of cognitive functions in children from birth to 10 years of age, the relationship of the development of cognitive functions with the development of the brain. Much attention will be paid to innovative behavioral and neurophysiological methods for studying cognitive functions in children at different ages. Course topics include characteristics of the development of basic cognitive functions: perception and attention, language and categorization, memory, and thinking. The course will also address the development of children's social cognition and learning abilities (joint attention, theory of mind), cognitive control and metacognition. Within the framework of the course mechanisms of cognitive development will be considered from different theoretical perspectives - associative approach, cultural-historical approach, neuroconstructivism.