Essays in Developmental Psychology
About the Book Series
Essays in Developmental Psychology is designed to meet the need for rapid publication of brief volumes in developmental psychology.
The series defines developmental psychology in its broadest terms and covers such topics as social development, cognitive development, developmental neuropsychology and neuroscience, language development, learning difficulties, developmental psychopathology and applied issues.
Each volume in the series makes a conceptual contribution to the topic by reviewing and synthesizing the existing research literature, by advancing theory in the area, or by some combination of these missions.
Authors in this series provide an overview of their own highly successful research program, but they also include an assessment of current knowledge and identification of possible future trends in research.
Each book is a self-contained unit supplying the advanced reader with a coherent review of important research as well as its context, theoretical grounding and implications.
Approaches to the Development of Moral Reasoning
1st Edition
By Peter E. Langford
May 21, 2015
The first part of the book offers a survey of current approaches to the development of moral reasoning: those of Freud, ego psychology, Piaget and Kohlberg. The approach of Kohlberg has been popular because he was able to give an impressive account of findings from the key method of interviews, the...
Language Development and Social Interaction in Blind Children
1st Edition
By Miguel Perez Pereira, Gina Conti-Ramsden
May 21, 2015
This book provides an up-to-date account of blind children's developing communicative abilities with particular emphasis on social cognition and language acquisition from infancy to early school age. It purports to foster dialogue between those interested in the study of typically developing ...
Social Understanding and Social Lives: From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School
1st Edition
By Claire Hughes
January 03, 2014
Winner of the British Psychological Society Book Award (Academic Monograph category) 2013! Over the past thirty years, researchers have documented a remarkable growth in children’s social understanding between toddlerhood and the early school years. However, it is still unclear why some children’s...
Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia
1st Edition
By Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Pascale Colé, Willy Serniclaes
January 14, 2013
Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight which aspects of reading acquisition and dyslexia appear to be language-specific, and which are universal. Reading Acquisition ...
Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups
1st Edition
By Martyn Barrett
January 11, 2013
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been conducted into: . ...
Young Children's Thinking about Biological World
1st Edition
By Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki
November 28, 2012
Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development of biological understanding as the target case....
The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
1st Edition
By Susan Goldin-Meadow
April 05, 2005
Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn...
Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development
1st Edition
By Sara Meadows
October 01, 1996
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex methodological and conceptual issues. On the one hand there are theories which argue that the impetus of ...
Autism and the Development of Mind
1st Edition
By R. Peter Hobson
February 01, 1995
The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how the phenomenon of early childhood autism may cast light on issues that are central to our Understanding Of Normal Child Development - Issues Such As The Emotional origins of social experience and social understanding, the contribution of interpersonal ...
The Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills
1st Edition
By Michael A. Forrester
February 01, 1995
Understanding how young children begin to make sense out of the social world has become a major concern within developmental psychology. Over the last 25 years research in this area has raised a number of questions which mirror the confluence of interests from cognitive-developmental and ...
Analogical Reasoning in Children
1st Edition
By Usha Goswami
August 01, 1993
Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive skill, involved in classification, learning, problem-solving and creative thinking, and should be a basic building block of cognitive development. However, for a long time researchers have believed that children are incapable of reasoning by analogy. ...
Language Experience and Early Language Development: From Input to Uptake
1st Edition
By Margaret Harris
August 01, 1992
Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience....