Child Development category: 2058 books
by C.S. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Children are sponges. They soak up all that the world has to offer—both good and bad. In a world flooded with insta-fun, insta-wrong, and lightning speed access; author C.S. Harrison has taken an unbiased approach to sort through practical methods for parents and educators for tools leading to...
Regressions in Mental Development
Basic Phenomena and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Science depends on noticing that things which seem identical are different, and conversely. In psychology, one cannot assume that apparently identical behaviours are due to identical mechanisms. The work reported in this book involves the problem of classifying the true nature of behaviour as it appears...
by Professor Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
This major new textbook by Jaan Valsiner focuses on the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology. Intended for students from undergraduate level upwards, the book provides a wide-ranging overview of the cultural perspective on human development, with illustrations from pre-natal...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born with a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...
Different Childhoods
Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories opens up new avenues for exploring children’s development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather than a unitary, universal and consistent process.
This edited collection frames a critical exploration...
Young Children's Cognitive Development
Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are...
Early Childhood Development
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
A focus on the developmental progress of children before the age of eight helps to inform their future successes, including their personality, social behavior, and intellectual capacity. However, it is difficult for experts to pinpoint best learning and parenting practices for young children. Early...
Childhood and Human Nature
The Development of Personality
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
How do we make sense of people? Human behaviour is complex, so that understanding ourselves and others calls for both objective and subjective viewpoints, as well as a flexible appreciation of human development over time. Dr Sula Wolff believes that knowledge about personality development is essential...
Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory Development
Neurobiological, Cognitive, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Few questions in psychology have generated as much debate as those concerning the impact of childhood trauma on memory. A lack of scientific research to constrain theory has helped fuel arguments about whether childhood trauma leads to deficits that result in conditions such as false memory or lost...
From Orthography to Pedagogy
Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L. Venezky's work and influence on reading, linguistics, and computer science. This book catalogs findings related to speech and language development, reading and spelling's role in infant speech development, and the present and future advances...
Recent Advances in Cognitive-Developmental Theory
Progress in Cognitive Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in develop mental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems...
The First Steps to Reading
Teach your child through creative play.
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
Language is an instinct, reading is not. A baby’s brain is all wired up and ready to go for sounds and speech, but not for letters and writing. The First Steps to Reading will guide you through the stages of your child’s development and show how to get your toddler ready for reading by focusing...