Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
by R. Keith Sawyer, Vera John-Steiner, Seana Moran
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
What is creativity, and where does it come from? Creativity and Development explores the fascinating connections and tensions between creativity research and developmental psychology, two fields that have largely progressed independently of each other-until now. In this book, scholars influential...
by Stephanie Scheck
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Scientific Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Psychology - Developmental Psychology, grade: 1,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: Erik H. Erikson (1902 - 1994) is without a doubt one of the most outstanding psychoanalysts of the last century. The native Dane and later US-American...
Family Stories and the Life Course
Across Time and Generations
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2004
This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of telling family stories is linked to central aspects of development, including language acquisition, affect regulation, and family interaction patterns. This book...
Parental Stress and Early Child Development
Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
This book examines the complex impact of parenting stress and the effects of its transmission on young children’s development and well-being (e.g., emotion self-regulation; executive functioning; maltreatment; future parenting practices). It analyzes current findings on acute and chronic psychological...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The majority of research on eyewitness memory has traditionally studied children and young adults. By contrast, this volume is designed to provide an overview of empirical research on the cognitive, social, and health related factors that impact the accuracy of eyewitness testimony given by the...
Personal Project Pursuit
Goals, Action, and Human Flourishing
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Personal Project Pursuit is the first book to feature Brian Little's highly respected personal projects analysis (PPA), one of the pioneering theories in contemporary personality and motivational psychology. The book examines both the internal and external dynamics of personal goals and projects and...
Follow-Up for NICU Graduates
Promoting Positive Developmental and Behavioral Outcomes for At-Risk Infants
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This book examines the role of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) and follow-up clinics in addressing the complex developmental, behavioral, social, and medical needs of at-risk infants through early intervention and medical subspecialties. It describes the necessary functional components of follow-up...
The Biologising of Childhood
Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.
First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed...
Developmental Variations in Learning
Applications to Social, Executive Function, Language, and Reading Skills
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Developmental changes in cognitive abilities in childhood have long been of interest to researchers across many fields, including behavioral sciences, communications, education, and medicine. With the publication of research findings showing individual differences in the development of children's...
Coping With Uncertainty
Behavioral and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The first volume in this new series from The Center for the Study of Child and Adolescent Development at The Pennsylvania State University focuses on the relationship between the biological stress circuits and the behavioral concomitants to stress in animals and humans. The participants at this conference,...
Developmental Pathways Through Middle Childhood
Rethinking Contexts and Diversity as Resources
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
When can contexts and diversity be resources, rather than risks, for children's developmental pathways? Scholars, policy makers, and practitioners increasingly realize that middle childhood matters as a time when children's pathways diverge, as they meet new and overlapping contexts they must navigate...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Originally presented at the Sixth Adult Development Symposium, the papers in this volume examine possible relationships between the fields of organizational and (adult) developmental psychology with particular emphasis given to the grand developmental theories of Lawrence Kohlberg, Jean Piaget, Lev...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
There has been an increasing interest in the application of dynamical systems to the study of development over the last decade. The explosion of the dynamical systems framework in the physical and biological sciences has opened the door to a new Zeitgeist for studying development. This appeal to dynamical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2005
The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition, semantics, neuroscience, and modeling have begun to tackle a number of different but centrally related questions...