Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Questioning Vygotsky's Legacy
Scientific Psychology or Heroic Cult
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This accessible collection of essays critically examines Vygotsky’s scientific legacy. The book is solidly grounded in the "revisionist revolution" context and encourages constructive questioning of Vygotsky’s theory of human development. It tackles thought-provoking issues such as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. Aspects of our modern life, such as migration, economic globalization, multicultural policies, and cross-border travel and communication have made intercultural contacts inevitable. High numbers of multicultural individuals (23-43% of...
Epistemic Cognition and Development
The Psychology of Justification and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people’s knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs. Multiple literatures in psychology and education address aspects of epistemic cognition. In the absence of a coherent conceptual framework, however, these literatures...
Piaget Vygotsky
The Social Genesis Of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book is the outcome of a long and passionate debate among world experts about two of the most pivotal figures of psychology: Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotksy. The occasion was a week-long advanced course held at the Jean Piaget Archives in Geneva. The most interesting outcome of the meeting is that,...
Theory of Mind
Beyond the Preschool Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of the burgeoning literature on theory of mind (TOM) after the preschool years and the first to integrate this literature with other approaches to the study of social understanding. By highlighting the relationship between early and later...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The issue of how the external world becomes part of the behavioral repertoire of children has been important to psychology from its very beginning, preoccupying theorists from Sigmund Freud to George Herbert Mead. But ever since Lev Vygotsky claimed that every function in a child's activity appears...
From Sign to Symbol
Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In From Sign to Symbol: Transformational Processes in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Psychology, Joseph Newirth describes the evolution of the unconscious from the psychoanalytic concept that reflected Freud’s positivist focus on symptoms and repressed memories to the contemporary structure...
Development as a Social Process
Contributions of Gerard Duveen
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This volume discusses the interface between human development and socio-cultural processes by exploring the writings of Gerard Duveen, an internationally renowned figure, whose untimely death left a void in the fields of socio-developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and research into social representations. Duveen's original and comprehensiv
Patterns of Attachment
A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships across the lifespan evolved from John Bowlby’s critique of psychoanalytic drive theory and his own clinical observations, supplemented...
by Christine Langhoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: 2.1, Oxford Brookes University, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Theory of mind has been defined as the ability to think about other people's mental states and form theories of how they...
Origins of Possession
Owning and Sharing in Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Human possession psychology originates from deeply rooted experiential capacities shared with other animals. However, unlike other animals, we are a uniquely self-conscious species concerned with reputation, and possessions affect our perception of how we exist in the eyes of others. This book discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development. This developing "interest" in interest appears to be linked to an increasing concern for studying the individual in context, examining affective variables as opposed to...
Interaction, Communication and Development
Psychological development as a social process
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
For decades there has been considerable interest in the ways that interactions between children can provide a beneficial context for the study of cognitive and social development. In this book Psaltis and Zapiti use both theoretical and empirical research to build on the perspectives of Piaget, Vygotsky,...