Architecture and Dynamics of Developing Mind

This Monograph presents a theory of cognitive development. The theory argues that the mind develops across three fronts. The first refers to a general processing system that defines the general potentials of mind to develop cognitive strategies and skills. The second refers to a hypercognitive system that governs self-understanding and self-regulation. The third involves a set of specialized structural systems that are responsible for the representation and processing of different reality domains. I. Introduction

II. The Architecture of Developing Intellect

III. Study 1: The Empirical Status of Dimensions, Principles, and Specialized Structural Systems

IV. Study 2: Experimental Manipulation of Interdimensional Relations

V. Study 3: Looking Through the Metacognitive Looking Glass

VI. Studies 4 and 5: The Development of the Processing System and Its Relation to the Specialized Structural Systems

VII. General Discussion: Structure, Dynamics, and Individual Variation of Developing Mind

Commentary: Epistemological Problems for Neo-Piagetians / Robert L. Campbell

Reply: Meta-Piagetian Solutions to Epistemological Problems / Andreas Demetriou, Anastasia Efklides and Maria Platsidou

Andreas Demetriou born Andreas Panteli Demetriou on 15 August 1950) is a Greek Cypriot developmental psychologist and former Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus. After graduating from Pancyprium Gymnasium, the oldest secondary school in Cyprus, he went to Thessaloniki, Greece, where he studied psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received a PhD in psychology in 1983. He was a professor of Developmental Psychology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki until 1996. He then moved to the University of Cyprus, where he was a professor of psychology until he became the Minister of Education and Culture. Currently he is professor of psychology and President of the University of Nicosia Research Foundation. He is also President of the Pancyprian Association of Psychologists.

This Monograph presents a theory of cognitive development. The theory argues that the mind develops across three fronts. The first refers to a general processing system that defines the general potentials of mind to develop cognitive strategies and skills. The second refers to a hypercognitive system that governs self-understanding and self-regulation. The third involves a set of specialized structural systems that are responsible for the representation and processing of different reality domains.