An Introduction to Developmental Psychology

ISBN-13: 9781118767207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 848 str.

Opis

• A representative and authoritative 'state of the art' account of human development from conception to adolescence.
• Written at an easy-to-comprehend level by an international team of respected researchers, conveying their knowledge with enthusiasm and skill.
• Full supporting materials - chapter overviews, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and glossary.
• Chapters covering applied issues in developmental psychology

Spis treści

List of Contributors

Preface to Third Edition

Part I INTRODUCTION

1 The Scope and Methods of Developmental Psychology
Alan Slater, Scott P. Johnson, and Darwin Muir

2 Theories and Issues in Child Development
Scott P. Johnson, Alan Slater, and Ian Hocking

3 The Nature Nurture Issue
Alan Slater

Part II INFANCY

4 Prenatal Development
Christine Moon and William P. Fifer

5 Perception, Knowledge, and Action in Infancy
J. Gavin Bremner, Kirsty Dunn, and Diana S.Y. Tham

6 Emotional Development and Attachment Relationships
Elizabeth Meins

7 Early Social Interactions with People and Objects
Cintia Rodríguez, Julia Benassi, Luisa Estrada, and Nicolás Alessandroni

8 The Development of Self and Gender
Wendy Lawrenson

Part III CHILDHOOD

9 Cognitive Development
Margaret Anne Defeyter

10 The Development of Language
Heather M. Hill and Stan A. Kuczaj II

11 Acquiring a Theory of Mind
Peter Mitchell

12 Reading and Mathematics in Developmental Psychology
Peter Bryant

13 Memory Development and Eyewitness Testimony
Stephen J. Ceci, Stanka A. Fitneva, Cagla Aydin, and Nadia Chernyak

14 Play and the Beginnings of Peer Relationships
Peter K. Smith

15 Prosocial Tendencies, Antisocial Behaviour, and Moral Development in Childhood
Daniel Hart, Neeta Goel, and Robert Atkins

Part IV ADOLESCENCE

16 Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Kang Lee, Gizelle Anzures, and Alejo Freire

17 Social Development
Tirza H.J. Van Noorden and William M. Bukowski

Part V PRACTICAL ISSUES

18 Educational Implications
Alyson Davis and Naomi Winstone

19 Risk and Resilience in Development
Leslie Morrison Gutman and Eirini Flouri

20 Social Problems in Schools
Peter K. Smith and Julian Elliott

21 Atypical Development
Sarah Norgate

Glossary

Names Index

Subject Index

O autorze

Alan Slater is Reader in Developmental Psychology at the University of Exeter.  He is the co–editor of  The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology  (Blackwell, 1999),  Introduction to Infant Development  (OUP, 2006), and the co–editor with Gavin Bremner of  Theories of Infant Development  (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and the forthcoming 5–volume reference work  Infancy  (SAGE, 2013). Gavin Bremner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Lancaster.  He is the author and editor of many books, including the popular textbook,  Infancy  (Blackwell, 1994).  He is co–editor of  The Wiley–Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development  (Wiley–Blackwell, 2010) and the 3–volume reference work  Developmental Psychology  (SAGE, 2004).