Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
There has been a burgeoning of interest in the relation between biological development--particularly brain development--and behavioral development. This shift in focus does a better job of reflecting the whole child and all of development. Not surprisingly, many of the individuals who are concerned...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The understanding of early deception is important for both theoretical and practical purposes. Children's deceptive behaviors provide a window into their models and theories of mind. On a practical level, childhood deception poses challenges for the legal system as well as parents and schools.
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by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 56 is the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology. Chapters highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology, with this release covering Early moral development through social...
A Mindfulness Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
New Directions in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This book presents emerging research on the effectiveness of mindfulness methods in reducing behavior problems associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children. The volume synthesizes current research and theories on the therapeutic uses of mindfulness, specifically for people living with...
The Grammar of Autobiography
A Developmental Account
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology. It is an outgrowth of the historical relationship between psychology and linguistics, especially the post-Wittgensteinian "turn to language."...
Families with Adolescents
Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Despite their flocking to social networking sites in unprecedented numbers, research confirms that adolescents continue to be influenced primarily by their families rather than their peers and other social contexts. Consequently, the family unit remains a vital setting for understanding and intervening...
Jealousy in Infants
Laboratory Research on Differential Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This Brief synthesizes findings from recent experiments on jealousy in infants with insights from pioneering thinkers in developmental science. It discusses attachment issues, status of jealousy as an emotion and as a feature of temperament, underpinnings in social cognition, the development of adaptive...
Humor in Infants
Developmental and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This volume explores in depth how infants—perhaps as young as three months—develop the capacity to appreciate, participate in, and create humor. Engagingly written, it synthesizes theories of humor, its subtle complexities, and why it exists despite seeming to have little survival value. Chapters...
Problem Behavior Theory and the Social Context
The Collected Works of Richard Jessor, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This third and final volume of Richard Jessor’s collected works explores the central role of the social context in the formulation and application of Problem Behavior Theory. It discusses the effect of the social environment, especially the social context of disadvantage and limited opportunity,...
Cognitive Strategy Research
Educational Applications
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...
Do Apes Read Minds?
Toward a New Folk Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.
By adulthood, most of us have become experts in human behavior, able to make sense of the myriad behaviors we find in...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychology
The Science of Young Minds—Clear, Complete, and Current
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Simplifying a complex subject.
Child psychology is required for college level psych and elementary education majors. It is a complex subject that can include developmental psychology, biology, sociological psychology, and various schools of theory and therapies. The only sources of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first...
Psychology and Its Allied Disciplines
Volume 3: Psychology and the Natural Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Published in 1984, Psychology and its Allied Disciplines is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.