Poverty remains an urgent crisis worldwide. In the United States, 28.6 million children live in low-income families and 12.7 million children live in poor families. In nations belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (oecd), 47 million children liv…
House as a Mirror of Self is an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. It is not about architecture, or decorating styles, or real estate, but about the more subtle bonds…
Previous examinations of young children's political cognition have mainly followed a socialization framework, through large-scale surveys of children's developing comprehension of the adult political world as a knowledge-goal. However, this research was formulated in the belief …
A series of studies were conducted with the aim of showing that the Representational Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992) can be used a general model of cognitive development. In this thesis, 3 aspects of the RR model were explored. The first set of experiments invol…
This thesis sought to conceptualise children’s spelling and reading representations in a novel way based upon the implicit-explicit framework proposed by the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). The children studied were aged 4-7 years. Existing mod…
The current research examined whether nonword repetition (NWR) tasks, designed to measure phonological short-term memory, are also influenced by familiarity with lexical representation of a given language. In Study 1, children with and without exposure to Hebrew were administere…
The ideological gap between Western and Marxist psychology is of paradigmatic proportions, and few attempts were made to bridge it. However, recently, Vygotsky's/Luria's cognitive psychology has overshadowed Piagetian psychology, but in spite of this new prominence, Vygotskean p…
The purpose of this study was to research the influences of early childhood care providers’ characteristics (education, years of experience, and professional development) on Fragile Family children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes in Kindergarten. An Expost facto secondary co…
The liturgical event--multi-sensory in the interpersonal formation that occurs--is a meaningful developmental experience for infants. This project explores how the infant's engagement in interpersonal communion, supported by clinical and theoretical findings in developmental psy…
The presence of and/or search for meaning has divergent and salient outcomes for individuals’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Although numerous domains of meaning have been examined, the literature on the meaning of sex is sparse and lacks a quantitative measure. In …
Learners are multi-faceted, unique people. Discovering the whole individual is incumbent upon realizing the teaching/learning environments, common social and societal realities, and belief and value systems respective of academic and socio-societal factors that establish who one…
Early childhood education and care (ecec) is a topic of increased policy interest in the Slovak Republic where improving quality in the ecec sector is a subject of growing importance. The oecd has identified five effective policy levers to encourage quality in the sector: 1) qua…
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a topic of increased policy interest in the Slovak Republic where improving quality in the ECEC sector is a subject of growing importance. The OECD has identified five effective policy levers to encourage quality in the sector: 1) qua…
"Focuses on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy, childhood, and adolescence"--
This book takes an interdisciplinary look at cognitive aging - how it happens and how to study it. The first part of the book explores methods for measuring cognitive change, including how to study cohort effects. The second part explores the social and psychological factors ass…
Nutrition for brain health and cognitive performance
"Public awareness of the role diet plays in brain function has been steadily increasing. This has led to significant development of new products, dietary supplements, functional foods, nutraceuticals and public health recommendations for maintaining brain function. Nutrition for…
Sentience - the ability to feel, perceive and experience - is central to the animal welfare debate as it raises the question of whether animals experience suffering in life and death. This book explores and answers these questions in an objective way, based on the latest researc…