Child & Developmental Psychology

In the 16 years since the publication of the second edition of this volume, psychological theory and research in mental retardation has continued t...

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between ...

As one of the most hotly debated topics of the past decade, false memory has attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners in many of psy...

This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages. It repres...

The proposed levels theory presented in this book concerns some developmental changes in the capacity to selectively encode information and provide...

This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adu...

Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur ...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

This book introduces the reader to both neurolinguistics per se and the neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism. Neurolinguistics may roughly be...

This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in ad...

This is the third book in a series of Across the Life Span volumes that has come from the Biennial Life Span Development Conferences. The authors--...

In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, belief...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship on how issues of human separateness, or independence, and ...

There is a general and extensive literature in the development of representational thought and symbolic processes because of its centrality in huma...

This book examines a key issue in current cognitive theories - the nature of representation. Each chapter is characterized by attempts to frame hot...

One of the main contributions of this important book is that it offers a thorough survey of the theoretical and empirical developments that have oc...

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...

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown...

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on...

Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a ...

Based on research about after-school experiences and dilemmas conducted over a four-year period with employed parents and their children, this book...

Based on the 25th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, this book represents cutting-edge work on the mechanisms of cognitive, social, ...