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Exploring developmental psychology : from infancy to adolescence /

Contributor(s): Messer, David J., Prof, 1952- | Millar, Stuart, Prof.
Publisher: London : New York : Arnold ; Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xxiv, 524 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0340676825 (pbk.); 9780340676820:.Subject(s): Developmental psychologyDDC classification: 155.4
Contents:
List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Life processes and infancy. 1. Genetics and development / Alison Pike and Robert Plomin ; 2. Developmental cognitive neuroscience: relating brain development to cognitive change / Mark H. Johnson ; 3. Knowledge of the physical world in infancy / J. Gavin Bremner ; 4. The development of communication and language / David Messer ; 5. The development of attachment relationships: infancy and beyond / Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn and Carlo Schuengel -- pt. 2. Cognitive and representational growth. 6. Theories of cognitive development / Karen Pine ; 7. The development of pictorial representation / Pamela M. Smith ; 8. Intelligence / Mike Anderson ; 9. Reading skill and dyslexia / Rod Nicolson -- pt. 3. Atypical development and development in special circumstances. 10. Growing and learning with sensory impairments / Julie Dockrell and Nicola Grove ; 11. Growing and learning with cognitive impairments / Nicola Grove and Julie Dockrell ; 12. Autism / Stuart D. Powell -- pt. 4. Interpersonal processes: others and their influence. 13. Psychoanalytic views about development / Howard Steele and Miriam Steele ; 14. Emotional development / Mark Meerum Terwogt and Hedy Stegge ; 15. Socio-moral development / Lutz H. Eckensberger ; 16. Families and their role in children's lives and development / Anne Woollett ; 17. Bullying in school children / Dieter Wolke and Katherine Stanford ; 18. The uses and significance of electronic media during development / Charles K. Crook -- pt. 5. Towards adulthood. 19. Adolescence in Europe: an important life phase? / Leo B. Hendry and Marion Kloep ; 20 Challenges, risks and coping in adolescence / Marion Kloep and Leo B. Hendry ; 21. Personal growth and racialized identities: the inextricable linking of the personal and the social in everyday practices / Ann Phoenix -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.
Summary: This textbook provides an in-depth presentation of developmental psychology across a broad range of key issues which are at the forefront of current research. It considers child development from infancy to adolescence and adopts a topic based approach.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-504) and index.

List of contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Life processes and infancy. 1. Genetics and development / Alison Pike and Robert Plomin ; 2. Developmental cognitive neuroscience: relating brain development to cognitive change / Mark H. Johnson ; 3. Knowledge of the physical world in infancy / J. Gavin Bremner ; 4. The development of communication and language / David Messer ; 5. The development of attachment relationships: infancy and beyond / Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn and Carlo Schuengel -- pt. 2. Cognitive and representational growth. 6. Theories of cognitive development / Karen Pine ; 7. The development of pictorial representation / Pamela M. Smith ; 8. Intelligence / Mike Anderson ; 9. Reading skill and dyslexia / Rod Nicolson -- pt. 3. Atypical development and development in special circumstances. 10. Growing and learning with sensory impairments / Julie Dockrell and Nicola Grove ; 11. Growing and learning with cognitive impairments / Nicola Grove and Julie Dockrell ; 12. Autism / Stuart D. Powell -- pt. 4. Interpersonal processes: others and their influence. 13. Psychoanalytic views about development / Howard Steele and Miriam Steele ; 14. Emotional development / Mark Meerum Terwogt and Hedy Stegge ; 15. Socio-moral development / Lutz H. Eckensberger ; 16. Families and their role in children's lives and development / Anne Woollett ; 17. Bullying in school children / Dieter Wolke and Katherine Stanford ; 18. The uses and significance of electronic media during development / Charles K. Crook -- pt. 5. Towards adulthood. 19. Adolescence in Europe: an important life phase? / Leo B. Hendry and Marion Kloep ; 20 Challenges, risks and coping in adolescence / Marion Kloep and Leo B. Hendry ; 21. Personal growth and racialized identities: the inextricable linking of the personal and the social in everyday practices / Ann Phoenix -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.

This textbook provides an in-depth presentation of developmental psychology across a broad range of key issues which are at the forefront of current research. It considers child development from infancy to adolescence and adopts a topic based approach.

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