Chapter 2
Cognitive development and expertise
Article outline
- 2.1Processes directing early conceptual development
- 2.2Understanding the development of expertise
- 2.2.1Theories about expertise
- 2.2.2Stage theory
- 2.2.3Sequence of understandings
- 2.2.4Spontaneous versus non-spontaneous (scientific) concepts
- 2.2.5Representational redescription theory
- 2.3Emotional and attitudinal influences on cognition
- 2.3.1Emotional factors
- 2.3.2Attitudinal factors
- 2.4Cognition and brain development
- 2.5A model of the interactive processes