Cypriot Academics - Andreas Demetriou, Stass Paraskos, Athanasios Orphanides, Constantinos C. Markides, Androula Yiakoumetti (Paperback)

Chapters: Andreas Demetriou, Stass Paraskos, Athanasios Orphanides, Constantinos C. Markides, Androula Yiakoumetti. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: History Subfields Portal Andreas Demetriou (born Andreas Panteli Demetriou on August 15, 1950) (Greek: ) is a well known Greek Cypriot developmental psychologist and currently the Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus. He was born in Strongylo, Famagusta, Cyprus, on 15 August 1950. He is married to Julia Tsakalea and he has two sons, Pantelis and Demetris. 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. His research focuses on cognitive development. From the very beginning he attempted to develop a comprehensive theory of cognitive development aiming to integrate the empirically valid aspects of Piagets theory with psychometric and cognitive theory. That is, the theory aimed to describe and explain intellectual development through the life span, individual differences in the rate and directions of intellectual development, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying development and individual differences. According to this theory, the human mind is organized in three functional levels. The first is the level of processing potentials, which involves information processing mechanisms underlying the ability to attend to, select, represent, and operate on information. The other two of...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25089912