Child & Developmental Psychology

Is there life for the family in the 21st century? Pessimists view the traditional two-parent nuclear family as a relic of the past, attributing the...

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of childhood development focus on the critical issues and questions that need to be addr...

Vygotsky is widely considered one of the most significant and influential psychologists of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, true appreciation o...

First published in 1985. The present book represents a statement of the state of the art in a very important aspect of spatial cognition, its devel...

Originally published in 1985, this book sought to thoroughly examine and better understand a dimension of interpersonal relations which at the time...

This second edition of The Child as Thinker has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied an...

One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher f...

The contributors to this volume apply a developmental focus to their examination of one of the most widely agreed upon classifications of behavior ...

This book demonstrates and explicates the work of scholars and practitioners who are exploring the interconnectedness of racial and ethnic identity...

This distinctive cross-linguistic examination of spelling examines the cognitive processes that underlie spelling and the process of learning how t...

This is the fifth volume in a series which endeavours to organize, centralize and present current ideas and research in the field of child developm...

Published in 1985, Childrens Searching is a valubale contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

translated by Hermina and Morris Sinclair This book was written by a group of researchers with a common theoretical-constructivist-framework and u...

One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in m...

This volume is a sympathetic but analytical and critical view of social constructivist teaching, considering both its affordances (what it offers t...

This volume provides an introduction to current research on the relation between brain development and the development of cognitive, linguistic, mo...

Unique and comprehensive, this volume integrates the most updated theory and research relating to adolescent coping and its determinants. This book...

The understanding of early deception is important for both theoretical and practical purposes. Children's deceptive behaviors provide a window into...

How do children understand reasoning by mathematical induction? Mathematical induction - Poincare's reasoning by recurrence - is a standard form of...

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to ...

This volume provides a primarily nontechnical summary of experimental and theoretical work conducted over the course of 35 years which resulted in ...

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental change...

It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to ob...

For decades, research on children's literacy has been dominated by questions of how children learn to read. Especially among Anglophone scholars, c...

Identity has been a topical issue in both popular and social science literatures for the past forty years. The writings of Erik Erikson on the iden...

While in the late 1970s and early 1980s health compliance research on adults represented a vigorous field of study, a marked decline of interest on...

During the past decade a diverse group of disciplines have simultaneously intensified their attention upon the scientific study of emotion. This pr...

Infancy is one of the most fascinating periods in the human life cycle. In two short years, infants become thinking, speaking, social beings. As th...

This book is about building metaphorical bridges--all sorts of bridges. At the most basic level, it concerns the bridges that individuals build to ...

It is widely recognized that a person's values will profoundly affect what that person attends to, thinks about, and remembers. Yet, despite this, ...

The papers presented in this volume seek to illuminate relationships among the cognitive style of field dependence- independence and biological, ps...

This volume addresses two major areas of inquiry in the field of early childhood education and care. The first section of the book includes scholar...

In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture whe...

Adulthood is an accessible text which deals with the vital area of adult psychological development. It combines detailed accounts of the main theor...

Contrary to the belief that computers isolate users, Karen Littleton and Paul Light demonstrate that learning with computers is often a collaborati...

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and...

Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives o...

Cultivating Compassion offers an effective and highly sensitive psychodynamic approach for working with ADHD children and their parents. Conway sea...

Working memory is the system responsible for the temporary maintenance and processing of information involved in most cognitive activities, and its...

Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive develop...

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first develope...

In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncer...

Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive develop...

This serial publication continues to review life-span research and theory in the behavioral and social sciences, particularly work done by psycholo...