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Essays in Developmental Psychology
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26 Series Titles
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Family Narratives and the Development of an Autobiographical Self: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory
3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development
Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Brother and Sister Relationships in Development and Well-Being
The Adolescent Brain: Changes in learning, decision-making and social relations
Learning About Objects in Infancy
Social Understanding and Social Lives: From Toddlerhood through to the Transition to School
Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia
Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups
Young Children's Thinking about Biological World
The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
Language Development and Social Interaction in Blind Children
Robyn Fivush
Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs an autobiographical self, a narrative identity, that confers a sense of coherence and meaning to our individual...
Olivier Houdé
3-System Theory of the Cognitive Brain: A Post-Piagetian Approach to Cognitive Development puts forward Olivier Houdé's 3-System theory of the cognitive brain, based on numerous post-Piagetian psychological and brain imaging data acquired from children and adults. This ground-breaking theory...
Olivera Petrovich
It is commonly assumed that young children only begin to think about God as a result of some educational or cultural influence, perhaps provided by their parents. Natural-Theological Understanding from Childhood to Adulthood asks if there is anything about God that children can know...
Naomi White, Claire Hughes
Many people grow up with at least one sibling. These siblings are often 'fellow travellers' through adversity or significant life events; they can act as a source of support for some children while a source of conflict for others. For these reasons, siblings are a potentially powerful influence on...
Eveline A. Crone
In recent years there have been tremendous advances in understanding how brain development underlies behavioural changes in adolescence. Based on the latest discoveries in the research field, Eveline A. Crone examines changes in learning, emotions, face processing and social relationships in...
Amy Work Needham
How do young infants experience the world around them? How similar or different are infants' experiences from adults' experiences of similar situations? How do infants progress from relatively sparse knowledge and expectations early in life to much more elaborate knowledge and expectations just...
Claire Hughes
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...
Liliane Sprenger-Charolles, Pascale Colé, Willy Serniclaes
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...
Martyn Barrett
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: ....
Giyoo Hatano, Kayoko Inagaki
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....
Susan Goldin-Meadow
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...
Miguel Perez-Pereira, Gina Conti-Ramsden
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...
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Michelle Ellefson
University of Cambridge , UK
Henry Wellman
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