Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Successful Aging
A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2020
Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age; why we should think about health span, not life span; and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, how you can make...
Contributions To Information Integration Theory
Volume 3: Developmental
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The theory of information integration provides a unified, general approach to the three disciplines of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Each of these volumes illustrates how the concepts and methods of this experimentally-grounded theory may be productively applied to core problems in one of these three disciplines.
The Nature-Nurture Debates
Bridging the Gap
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debate, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely...
Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence
An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Published in 2001, Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women
Rethinking change in time
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Choice Recommended Read
This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The purpose of this book is to explore meaningful integrations of developmental processes and functioning with conceptualizations of "context" -- a term traditionally denoting physical settings, social arenas, or perceptual or social backdrops in relation to a focal point. However, the study...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Human memory is not only the repository of our past but the essence of who we are. As such, it is of enduring fascination. We marvel at its resilience in some situations and its fragility in others. The origin of this extraordinary cognitive capacity in infancy and childhood is the focus of vigorous...
The Development of Social Engagement
Neurobiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2005
The Development of Social Engagement, edited by Peter J. Marshall and Nathan A. Fox, brings together some of the latest research on social engagement processes across a range of life stages and species. The opening chapters provide overviews of cutting-edge research on social engagement in areas such...
Handbook of Intelligence
Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with –...
Morphisms and Categories
Comparing and Transforming
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Despite dissent in many quarters, Piaget's epistemology and the developmental psychology derived from it remain the most powerful theories in either field. From the beginning, Piaget's fundamental epistemological notion was that all knowledge is rooted in action, and for a long time, he identified...
Adolescence. The physical, cognitive, social, personality, moral, and faith development of adolescence
The physical, cognitive, social, personality, moral, and faith development of adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: Life is marked by developmental changes in every domain of life: physical, cognitive, social, personality, faith, and moral. Due to great researchers such...
The Development of Autism
Perspectives From Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Dedicated to the memory and work of Lisa Capps, this volume is a forum for scholars and practitioners interested in the typical and atypical development of persons with autism. Each chapter is focused on theoretical considerations and the empirical evidence regarding a specific aspect of functioning,...
by Christine Langhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: 2.1, Oxford Brookes University, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Many researchers have tried to identify environmental factors that can cause intellectual deficits. These include malnutrition,...