Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
The Electrified Mind
Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate...
by Adam Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Learning how to analyze people and their personalities can do wonders for your relationships. Whether it's your coworker, your significant, your family, or even a complete stranger, you will always know exactly how to respond in the best possible way.
This book contains proven steps and strategies...
Piaget Or the Advance of Knowledge
An Overview and Glossary
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This unusual volume presents an overview of Jean Piaget's work in psychology--from his earliest writings to posthumous publications. It also contains a glossary of the essential explanatory concepts found in this work. The focus is on Piaget's psychological studies and on the underlying epistemological...
Delta Theory and Psychosocial Systems
The Practice of Influence and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Delta Theory establishes the foundation for a true scientific applied psychology, a theory of how human influence induces change in others. Delta Theory is unified and universal, applying to all cultures, historical periods and goals for change. It integrates concepts and research from psychology,...
Women and Positive Aging
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today’s society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Focusing on the teaching and learning of science concepts at the elementary and high school levels, this volume bridges the gap between state-of-the-art research and classroom practice in science education. The contributors -- science educators, cognitive scientists, and psychologists -- draw clear...
Reasoning: Representation and Process
In Children and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Originally published in 1975, this volume contains original reports of new models and data in the areas of propositional reasoning, syllogistic reasoning, and transitive inference in children and adults of the time. A wide range of theoretical viewpoints is represented, and an effort is made to integrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
The rapid growth in the numbers of older people worldwide has led to an equally rapid growth in research on the changes across age in cognitive function, including the processes of moment to moment cognition known as working memory. This book brings together international research leaders who address...
Play and Development
Evolutionary, Sociocultural, and Functional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Children's play is a universal human activity, and one that serves a significant purpose in personal development.Throughout this volume, which is an extension of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, the editors and contributors explore assumptions about play and its status as a unique and universal activity in humans.As a whole, Play
Visions of Aesthetics, the Environment & Development
the Legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Derived from a conference honoring the legacy of Joachim Wohlwill, this volume is designed to reflect as many facets of the late scholar's wide-ranging work as possible. As its title indicates, the book identifies three broad areas in which Wohlwill made significant contributions: art and aesthetics,...
Modularity and Constraints in Language and Cognition
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 25
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized, cognitive subsystems, rather than a highly general cognitive learning and inferring device? To date,...
Development of Cognition, Affect, and Social Relations
The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Handbook of Moral Behavior and Development
Volume 2: Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The publication of this unique three-volume set represents the culmination of years of work by a large number of scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field of moral development. The literature on moral behavior and development has grown to the point where it is no longer possible to capture...
Gerontology
Perspectives and Issues, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the ìgerontological imagination,î and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically rigorous yet clear and accessible, the text provides the most current findings from...