Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Aging and Skilled Performance
Advances in Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The term "skill" encompasses an array of topics and issues. For example, individuals are skilled in a variety of domains such as chess, typing, air traffic control, or knitting; researchers study skill in a variety of ways, including speed of acquisition, accuracy of performance, and retention over...
Family Observational Coding Systems
Resources for Systemic Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
CODING MANUAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE FROM THE CHAPTER AUTHORS, AND THEIR E-MAIL ADDRESSES CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE XV OF THE BOOK.
Family studies is an area that has enjoyed the benefits of conceptual and methodological advances in recent years including the widespread adoption of observational research...
The New Population Problem
Why Families in Developed Countries Are Shrinking and What It Means
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
This book is based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on "Creating the Next Generation: Social, Economic, and Psychological Processes Underlying Fertility in Developed Countries," held at the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. The papers address some of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web is devoted to the exploration of how the World Wide Web might be used to deliver current, easily accessible health information to adults over the age of 60 and their caregivers. The book considers how age-related changes in vision, cognitive...
Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging
Linking Cognitive and Cerebral Aging
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This second edition of the popular Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging provides up-to-date coverage of the most fundamental topics in this discipline. Like the first edition, this volume accessibly and comprehensively reviews the neural mechanisms of cognitive aging appropriate to both professionals and...
Researching Families and Children
Culturally Appropriate Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Researching Families and Children: Culturally Appropriate Methods highlights methodological issues that arise while conducting research on human development in India. This compilation deals with the dynamics of transacting research in the field, instead of providing formalized instructions on how...
individual Differences in infancy
Reliability, Stability, and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The papers presented in this volume, written by active and well- known researchers, discuss experimental research that has validated the importance of infancy in individual development over the age continuum.
In addition, a diverse overview section contains informative chapters on conceptual...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
There are many aspects of life which require us to distinguish between memories of different events, such as deciding whether you locked the door or only intended to lock the door. Source monitoring, or identifying the source of a particular memory (was the event experienced? related by someone else?...
The Study of Temperament
Changes, Continuities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Entwicklungspsychologie des Kindes- und Jugendalters für Bachelor
Lesen, Hören, Lernen im Web (Lehrbuch mit Online-Materialien)
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Der Mensch entwickelt sich vor allem in früher Kindheit und Jugendalter rapide. Doch wann entwickelt sich was – und wie entwickelt es sich genau? Wie misst man Veränderungen oder den Entwicklungsstand? Welche Rolle spielen Erbgut und Umwelt? Dieses Lehrbuch beantwortet alle prüfungsrelevanten...
Change and Development
Issues of Theory, Method, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book and the symposium on which it was based were designed to cross the boundaries of subdiscipline and theoretical orientation to address four critical issues in understanding development: explanation of change and development; the nature and process of change; forms of variability in performance;...
Postconventional Moral Thinking
A Neo-kohlbergian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Although Lawrence Kohlberg provided major ideas for psychological research in morality for decades, today some critics regard his work as outmoded, beyond repair, and too faulty for anybody to take seriously. These critics suggest that research would advance more profitably by taking a different approach....
The Epigenesis of Mind
Essays on Biology and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed.
Among these themes are:
Structural constraints on cognitive development and learning come in many shapes and...
The Pragmatic Basis of Aphasia
A Neurolinguistic Study of Morphosyntax Among Bilinguals
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This language study's primary purpose is to use aphasic performance to understand language, rather than to use linguistic analysis to understand aphasia. Examining the detailed nature of linguistic performance of bilingual aphasics in a variety of "natural" and metalinguistic tasks, the...