Questions tagged [cognitive-development]
For questions relating to cognitive development; the study of acquiring information processing abilities, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology that develop during the course of a lifespan.
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Leveraging emotional intelligence effectively in choice process
I am stuck between choosing between a few options. I have analyzed them rationally and yet I cannot decide what is the most suited for me.
I have read that a powerful tool here would be leveraging ...
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It's there a documented case of someone who learned language from the written word?
I'm wondering whether there is any known case of someone who was unable to communicate through speech or sign language (e.g. because of a lack of people around then who knew sign language), and who ...
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General lack of cognitive empathy disorder
Has there ever been a documented case or classification of a disorder where a person is unable to comprehend the fact that others do not know the same things they do, or that individuals do not know ...
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Looking for literature on detailed developmental milestones (and their prerequisites) for a child of a given age
I would like to know if there is any scientific literature on the detailed developmental milestones in different domains(cognitive, language etc.,) that a child of a given age is supposed to reach.
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Are correlations between intelligence domains expected to increase or decrease over childhood and adolescence?
I've been reading a lot of different theories about how intelligence develops over childhood and adolescence, and I'm wondering about one specific aspect of it: The change or stability of the ...
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How would a human baby's brain develop if born in a sensory deprivation chamber?
According to Scientific American, people who are blind can learn to use their sense of hearing more efficiently. Similarly, deaf people, may learn to utilize their vision more effectively. While the 5 ...
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Learn Cognitive Empathy
I recently stumbled upon some psychology sites and learned more about the 3 types of empathy. Since I want to understand everyone better, I want to improve my skills at empathy. I found a lot of ...
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Do toddlers have to learn what they feel?
In Thomas Metzinger's book Being No One, he claimed at the start of section 6.3.3
Have you ever seen a child, who has just learned to walk, run toward a set of two or three stairs much too fast and ...
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How do we call a tendency of young children to accept things as facts without doubting them?
I have noticed that young children don't doubt a lot of things. If a teacher tell them "1+1=2", they usually just learn it without questioning. When those children get older, they often start to ...
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Death caused by "Failure to Thrive" (FTT)
This question, whilst to a degree can be seen as "common sense" in some respects, has puzzled me in other ways.
Looking at the situations where Failure to Thrive (FTT) can cause death, even ...
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Appropriate age grouping for studying linguistic development
I am publishing a survey on a crowdsourcing platform to study how people of different ages perceive certain aspects of non-literal language. The platform allows me to target people with ages in ...
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Why do our brains act in such a evil way sometimes that hurts other people?
I have seen some real evil acts. And I almost lost confidence in humanity.
Why do we become so evil sometimes that hurts other people?
I guess everybody knows the Renaissance novel Les Miserables by ...
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Early STEM Education Impact
I'm looking to find studies that examine when STEM education is most critical (e.g. what years of early STEM education have a significant impact on college/uni-level students, as measured by their IQs/...
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Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome
According to HealthLine, Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome, known clinically as Pycnodysostosis (PYCD) can cause
difficulty with mental processes, though intelligence is not usually affected
GARD also list ...
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What is the optimal way to run the Piaget Conservation of Number Task?
I am hoping to run a standard Piaget conservation task to test the conservation of number. The task is as follows:
Coins such as pennies are placed on a table. A certain number of
coins are ...
