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Understanding Children's Development

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-118-77298-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Erscheinungstermin: 21.08.2015
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Understanding Children's Development is the UK's best-selling developmental psychology textbook and has been widely acclaimed for its international coverage and rigorous research-based approach.

This dynamic text emphasizes the practical and applied implications of developmental research. It begins by introducing the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes before going on to consider all major aspects of development from conception through to adolescence.


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Preface to Sixth Edition xxi

Acknowledgements xxv

PART I THEORIES AND METHODS 1

Chapter 1 Studying Development 3

Chapter 2 Biological and Cultural Theories of Development 31

PART II PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT AND BIRTH 77

Chapter 3 Prenatal Development and Birth 79

PART III T HE SOCIAL WORLD OF THE CHILD 105

Chapter 4 Parents and Families 107

Chapter 5 Siblings and the Peer Group 161

Chapter 6 Developing Emotional Intelligence and Social Awareness 199

Chapter 7 Play 233

Chapter 8 Children and Media 265

Chapter 9 Helping Others and Moral Development 297

Chapter 10 Social Dominance, Aggression and Bullying 339

PART IV CHILDREN’S DEVELOPING MINDS 377

Chapter 11 Perception 379

Chapter 12 Language 405

Chapter 13 Cognition: Piaget’s Theory 443

Chapter 14 Cognition: The Information Processing Approach 471

Chapter 15 Children’s Understanding of Mind 513

Chapter 16 Learning in a Social Context 545

Chapter 17 Intelligence and Attainment 579

Chapter 18 Deprivation and Enrichment: Risk and Resilience 605

PART V ADOLESCENCE 643

Chapter 19 Adolescence 645

References (Visit the website to download the references - www.wiley.com/college/smith)

Index 693