Childhood: Program 5. Life's lessons
Between the ages of five and seven, children enter a new and distinctive stage of development called middle childhood, marked by the phenomenon known as "the 5 -7 shift." This change is demonstrated by new abilities and behaviors as children move aw...
Study of attention
Do we really have to pay attention to control and direct all our behavior? How is it that we focus our attention on one input or stimulus and ignore the rest? This program answers these questions by examining the following concepts: the selective at...
Babies' minds: Piagetian and Kleinian perspectives
How do babies develop an understanding of the people and things that populate the world, and at what age do they begin to acquire it? This program examines Jean Piaget's and Melanie Klein's theories on infant mental representation. Examples of infan...
Preschoolers: Cognitive Development
This video examines cognitive development between the ages of three and five. It shows how the brain creates neural bridges, considers preoperational thought, discusses language development, and explains how interactions with adults encourage cognit...
Neuroscience - Program 4: The Thinking and Social Brain
About this title: Bill explains that the central focus of 21st century cognitive neuroscience is the relationships between perception, learning, memory, language, and selective attention--in other words, the relationship between neuroscience and psy...
Building Mathematical Competencies in Early Childhood
The mathematical skills children bring with them to elementary school predict both their mathematical and literacy achievement for years to come. In this video, experts from Erikson Institute’s Early Mathematics Education Project discuss approache...
Cognitive development
The aim of this program is to examine Piaget's theory and to critically evaluate it in light of modern research. The study of child development in the 20th century revolved around Jean Piaget's theories, and the program clearly describes their centr...
The Raising of America: Episode 1 - The Raising of America
About the title: The U.S. is the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world. So why has our child well-being fallen to 26th? An alarming number of American children are following low developmental trajectories from the start. They enter adulthoo...
The Raising of America: Episode 5 - DNA Is Not Destiny
About the title: Fetal and early childhood experiences and environments – chemical, family, socio-economic – literally become part of us. But how? The genes we inherit don’t change. But new scientific discoveries reveal that disadvantage and a...