Architecture and Dynamics of Developing Mind Experiential Structuralism As a Frame for Unifying Cognitive Development Theories

by Demetriou, Andreas; Efklides, Anastasia; Platsidou, Maria; Campbell, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780631224419
• ISBN10: 0631224416
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Monograph presents a theory of cognitive development. The theory argues that the mind develops across three fronts. The first refers to a general processing system that defines the general potentials of mind to develop cognitive strategies and skills. The second refers to a hypercognitive system that governs self-understanding and self-regulation. The third involves a set of specialized structural systems that are responsible for the representation and processing of different reality domains.

Author Biography

Andreas Demetriou born Andreas Panteli Demetriou on 15 August 1950) is a Greek Cypriot developmental psychologist and former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus. After graduating from Pancyprium Gymnasium, the oldest secondary school in Cyprus, he went to Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received a PhD in psychology in 1983. He was a professor of Developmental Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until 1996. He then moved to the University of Cyprus, where he was a professor of psychology until he became the Minister of Education and Culture. Currently he is professor of psychology and President of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation. He is also President of the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.

Table of Contents

Abstract	v
Introduction	1	(3)
The Architecture of Developing Intellect	4	(35)
Study 1: The Empirical Status of Dimensions, Principles, and Specialized Structural Systems	39	(20)
Study 2: Experimental Manipulation of Interdimensional Relations	59	(18)
Study 3: Looking Through the Metacognitive Looking Glass	77	(18)
Studies 4 and 5: The Development of the Processing System and Its Relation to the Specialized Structural Systems	95	(28)
General Discussion: Structure, Dynamics, and Individual Variation of Developing Mind	123	(80)
Appendix	141	(19)
References	160	(7)
Acknowledgments	167	(1)
COMMENTARY
Epistemological Problems for Neo-Piagetians	168	(24)
Robert L. Campbell
REPLY
Meta-Piagetian Solutions to Epistemological Problems	192	(11)
Andreas Demetriou
Anastasia Efklides
Maria Platsidou
Contributors	203	(1)
Statement of Editorial Policy	204