Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexuality
Developmental and Forensic Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Adolescent and child sexuality is studied by developmental psychologists from a research perspective and is of interest to forensic psychologists dealing with abuse and custody issues as well as rape cases. In many cases, it is of interest whether the child in question was sexually active to understand...
The Development of Intersensory Perception
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book provides the latest information about the development of intersensory perception -- a topic which has recently begun to receive a great deal of attention from researchers studying the general problem of perceptual development. This interest was inspired after the realization that unimodal...
The Handbook of Solitude
Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal, and Being Alone
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude
Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psychology
Examines...
Family and Human Development Across Cultures
A View From the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The culmination of 15 years of research by a Turkish psychologist who was educated in the West, this volume examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of cross-cultural psychology. It takes a contextual-developmental-functional approach linking the child, family, and society as they are embedded...
Causality and Development
Neo-Eriksonian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The third book in Young’s unique trilogy on causality and development continues to locate and define the central role of causality in biopsychosocial and network/systems development, and as a unifying concept of psychology itself. As a way of discussing causality, in general, initially, the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The contributors to this volume apply a developmental focus to their examination of one of the most widely agreed upon classifications of behavior disorders in child psychopathology -- internalizing and externalizing expressions of dysfunction. The research reported spans a wide range from infancy...
Synthesizing Nature-nurture
Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in a developmental framework capable of integrating causal influences at the genetic, neural, behavioral, and ecological levels of analysis. It describes...
The Nature and Development of Decision-making
A Self-regulation Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Although everyone has goals, only some people successfully attain their respective goals on a regular basis. With this in mind, the author attempts to answer the question of why some people are more successful than others. He begins with the assumption that the key to personal success is effective...
by Klaus Hurrelmann, Ullrich Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This comprehensive text highlights new developments in sociological, educational and psychological aspects of socialisation, examining how human beings as 'subjects' – experiencing, thinking and acting individuals – confront the material, social and cultural 'objects' of their environment and...
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
Volume 11
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Published in 1978, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.
Gaze-Following
Its Development and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism? This volume assembles...
Gonadal Hormones and Sex Differences in Behavior
A Special Issue of developmental Neuropsychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
As the papers in this special issue demonstrate, gonadal hormones have powerful effects on the development of the brain and behavior in human beings, as in other species. Both androgens and estrogens affect behavior throughout development, from early prenatal life through adulthood, as demonstrated...
Early Social Interaction
A Case Comparison of Developmental Pragmatics and Psychoanalytic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
When a young child begins to engage in everyday interaction, she has to acquire competencies that allow her to be oriented to the conventions that inform talk-in-interaction and, at the same time, deal with emotional or affective dimensions of experience. The theoretical positions associated with...
Development and Learning
Conflict Or Congruence?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume juxtaposes two different domains of developmental theory: the Piagetian approach and the information-processing approach.
Articles by experts in both fields discuss how concepts of development and learning, traditionally approached through cognitive-developmental theories such as...