Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Children’s Discovery of the Active Mind
Phenomenological Awareness, Social Experience, and Knowledge About Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
During the past 25 years, a great deal of research and theory has addressed the development of young children’s understanding of mental states such as knowledge, beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. Although developments in children’s understanding of the mind subsequent to early childhood...
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation
Developmental Epidemiology of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
International Review of Research in Mental Retardation is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of mental retardation. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and other health and...
The Self-system
Developmental Changes Between and Within Self-concepts
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book presents a longitudinal study dealing with developmental changes within and between self-concepts and their relation to personal functioning. Within the psychological literature -- and the developmental literature in particular -- the interest in the ideas people hold about themselves and...
Children's Sibling Relationships
Developmental and Clinical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
In the last decade, the significance of siblings in children's development and adjustment has been widely recognized, and research on brothers and sisters has increased dramatically. Bringing together exciting research on siblings by leading developmental psychologists and clinicians, this volume's...
The Development of Perception, Cognition and Language
A Theoretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time. The theme which underlies the discussion is that scientific knowledge of the cognitive characteristics of other people starts from the cognitive instruments...
Gene-Environment Transactions in Developmental Psychopathology
The Role in Intervention Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
This book examines the current research in gene-environment transactions (GEX) and its potential use in developing interventions and applications tailored to individual genetic makeups. Key concepts underlying GEX studies in this area are defined, identifying fundamental challenges in devising informed...
The Construction Zone
Working for Cognitive Change in School
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1989
In its description of several years of painstaking classroom observations and carefully crafted experimental interventions, the 'construction zone' makes clear the cleavage lines between the everyday requirements of classroom teaching and the practice of experimental psychologists. The best intentions...
Adult Cognition
An Experimental Psychology of Human Aging
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in developmental journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like...
Mechanisms of Cognitive Development
Behavioral and Neural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
This volume considers how children's thinking evolves during development, with a focus on the role of experience in causing change. It brings together cutting-edge research by leaders in the psychology and neurobiology of child development to examine the processes by which children learn and those...
Infancy to Early Childhood
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Developmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2001
Behavioral genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behavior through the lifespan. The preferred investigative technique for teasing out the differences between genetics and the environment is the longitudinal...
Developmental Tasks
Towards a Cultural Analysis of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Behavioral and cognitive development is considered here as an ordered change in an individual throughout his or her lifespan, and not as sets of individual differences between persons, nor as stage-like progressions. The concept of developmental task is introduced, stressing contexts within which...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
The trusted core disability textbook gets a comprehensive update in this second edition, now thoroughly revised to include all the critical topics today's professionals need to know about as they work with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. Brought to you by a new team of...
Disability Across the Developmental Life Span
For the Rehabilitation Counselor
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
This is the only text to provide comprehensive coverage of human growth and development, a requirement mandated by the Council of Rehabilitation Education (CORE) for a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling and for Licensed Professional Counselor certification. Written by an eminent leader in...
The Developmental Scientist's Companion
Improving Research Methodology and Achieving Professional Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Written by one of developmental science's foremost methodologists, The Developmental Scientist's Companion provides an engaging and accessible guide to the scientific techniques that have been devised to investigate human development. Adopting an original approach to what can be a dry yet essential...