The Blackwell reader in developmental psychology / edited by Alan Slater and Darwin Muir.
Contributor(s): Slater, Alan
| Muir, Darwin.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999Description: xxi, 557 p. ; 25 cm + pbk.ISBN: 063120718X ; 0631207198 .Subject(s): Developmental psychologyDDC classification: 155 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 155 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00075619 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Developmental psychology is one of the most exciting and dynamic areas of scientific enquiry to be found.
Provides the key readings in developmental psychology in one volume.
Introduces and contextualises each reading for ease of use and reference.
Presents an excellent reference and study tool for students and academics alike.
Includes postscripts to classic papers i. e. newly commissioned articles by the papers' original author updating their research.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Methods, history and developmental theory -- Part II: Basic issues: continuity, discontinuity, nature and nurture -- Part III: Perception and cognition in infancy -- Part IV: Memory, learning and cognition -- Part V: Language and communication -- Part VI: Emotional and social development -- Part VII: Children at risk.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I History and Developmental Theory
- 1 Introduction to Developmental Functions
- 2 A Biographical Sketch of an Infant
- 3 Baby in a Box
- 4 The Stages of the Intellectual Development of a Child
- 5 The Connectionist Infant: Would Piaget Turn in His Grave?
- Part II Continuity-Discontinuity and Nature-Nurture Issues
- 6 Can Measures of Infant Information Processing Predict Later Intellectual Ability?
- 7 Biological Bases of Childhood Shyness
- 8 The Genetic Basis of Complex Human Behaviors
- Part III Perception and Cognition
- 9 of Human Bonding: Newborns Prefer their Mothers' Voices
- 10 Listening to Speech in the First Year of Life
- 11 Pattern and Space Perception in Young Infants
- 12 Imitation of Facial and Manual Gestures by Human Neonates
- 13 Resolving the Debate about Early Imitation
- Part IV Memory, Learning and Cognition
- 14 Reactivation of Infant Memory
- 15 Rapid Change in the Symbolic Functioning of Very young Children
- 16 Deception in 3-year-olds
- 17 How Suggestible are Preschool Children? Cognitive and Social Factors
- 18 Development of Children's Knowledge about the Appearance-Reality Distinction
- 19 Children as Folk Psychologists: The Developing Understanding of the Mind
- 20 Development of Intuitive Theories of Motion: Curvilinear Motion in the Absence of External Forces
- Part V Language and Communication
- 21 Babbling in the Manual Mode: Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language
- 22 The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning
- 23 Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals
- 24 Rules of Language
- 25 Children's Understanding of Notions as Domains of Knowledge versus Referential-Communicative Tools
- 26 Categorizing Sounds and Learning to Read - A Causal Connection
- Part VI Social and Emotional Development
- 27 Self Development and Self-Conscious Emotions
- 28 Recent Developments in Attachment Theory and Research
- 29 American Child Care Today
- 30 Chinese and Canadian Children's Evaluations of Lying and Truth Telling: Similarities and Differences in the Context of Pro- and Anti-social Behaviors
- 31 The Relationship Between Parenting Types and Older Adolescents' Personality, Academic Achievement, Adjustment and Substance Use
- 32 Understanding Bullying from a Dynamic Systems Perspective
- 33 The Company they Keep: Friendships and their Developmental Significance
- Part VII Children at Risk
- 34 Helen Keller: An Extraordinary Life
- 35 Children of the Garden Island
- 36 Learning and Development in Children with Down's Syndrome
- 37 Cognitive Development and Cognitive Deficit
- 38 Head Start: Criticisms in a Constructive Context
- 39 The Domain of Developmental Psychopathology
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Alan Slater is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter.Darwin Muir is Professor of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.