Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Bullying, Rejection, & Peer Victimization
A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2009
Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization is the only book that addresses bullying across the developmental...
The Mind on Paper
Reading, Consciousness and Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Although the importance of literacy is widely acknowledged in society and remains at the top of the political agenda, writing has been slow to establish a place in the cognitive sciences. Olson argues that to understand the cognitive implications of literacy, it is necessary to see reading and writing...
Biology and Knowledge Revisited
From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.
Contributors trace the history of ideas concerning...
Lying, Cheating, and Carrying On
Developmental, Clinical, and Sociocultural Aspects of Dishonesty and Deceit
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
What constitutes a lie? What are the different types of lies? Why do people lie? Is dishonesty ubiquitous in human experience? And what should be done with individuals who seek pschotherapeutic help and yet can not reveal important aspects of their lives and even fabricate histories, associations,...
by Razie Mah
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego) and Martin Packer (University of Andes, Bogota) posted a draft of their contribution to volume 6 of Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology on academia.com. The title of their essay is “A Bio-Cultural Historical Approach to the Study of Development”....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children: Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) is one of the most often used measures to assess intelligence and cognitive functions in children, ages 6-16 years. The second edition of the WISC-IV Clinical Assessment and Intervention will include new information obtained from...
Reasoning, Necessity, and Logic
Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A presentation of current work that systematically explores and articulates the nature, origin and development of reasoning, this volume's primary aim is to describe and examine contemporary theory and research findings on the topic of deductive reasoning.
Many contributors believe concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and...
Uncommon Understanding
Development and Disorders of Language Comprehension in Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic. This book is unique in integrating research in language acquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we...
Perception, Empathy, and Judgment
An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1993
In Perception, Empathy, and Judgment Arne Johan Vetlesen focuses on the indispensable role of emotion, especially the faculty of empathy, in morality. He contends that moral conduct is severely threatened once empathy is prevented from taking part in an interplay with cognitive faculties (such as...
Children's Understanding
The Development of Mental Models
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This work argues that cognitive development is experience driven, and processes entailed in acquiring information about the world are analyzed based on recent models of learning and induction. The way information is represented and accessed when performing cognitive tasks is considered paying particular...
Caring for Children
Challenge To America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Childcare is one of the most debated issues today. This volume provides a comprehensive and current review of childcare research and public policy issues. Chapters are contributed by leaders from such fields as developmental research and early childhood education as well as by public policy officials....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Emotions have emerged as a topic of interest across the disciplines, yet studies and findings on emotions tend to fall into two camps: body versus brain, nature versus nurture. Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes offers a unique collaboration across the biological/social divide—from psychology and...
Children's Strategies
Contemporary Views of Cognitive Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
One of the issues central to both classic and contemporary theories of cognitive development is children's goal-directed behavior, which is typically investigated in terms of strategies. This book brings together in one volume the latest research and theory regarding the development of children's...