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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Does this recent twin study contradict Anders Erricson's view on the hereditary basis of talent?
The Swedish Psychologist K. Anders Ericsson has published many reports stating that talent is "made and not born". In his book 'The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance', he has ...
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Have there been any studies into language development in the blind?
The title pretty much says it all. I'm looking for any studies or experiments into language development in those born blind.
I'm interested as part of my investigations into AI on how language is ...
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What is the correlation between the development of the sense of self and the senses?
Children develop different senses of self at a couple of different ages. Normally developing children pass the 'Sally-Anne' test at about 4 years of age and the 'Mirror test' at around 18 months. My ...
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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 ...
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Does sensory deprivation affect cognitive abilities?
I am wondering if the loss of vision or hearing early in life (say, before the age of 14 years) affects cognitive abilities later in life? I would imagine that as a group, early-blind or early-deaf ...
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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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How sound is the psychology of Westworld?
Disclaimer: I am very much a layman in these areas of research, so please do amend the question in order to conform to conventional usage of terminology and definitions thereof.
In the series ...
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Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more to their infants and toddlers?
Which research article showed that East Asian parents used verbs more while White parents used adjectives more and had implications for causal and math learning?
Please give the citation 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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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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Study showing how different ages of children learn about balancing objects
I'm trying to track down a source for an idea I saw in a documentary a while ago (sorry, no idea where!) It demonstrated how children learn differently at different ages, through showing them ...
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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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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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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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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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