Child & Developmental Psychology

This landmark volume offers an introduction to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign or second language. Recent growth in student numbers and t...

Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important p...

Throughout her entire career, Judge Polier continually fought for the rights and needs of the poor. In this volume she describes the granting and d...

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and acc...

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children’s l...

Based on the First Biannual Lifespan Development Conference, this volume offers a multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach to the study of l...

Originally published in English in 1976, the book draws on and extends our knowledge of the process of learning. The subject of the study is the ge...

Children face an overwhelming amount of information and a range of different choices every day, and so there has never been a more important time t...

This book is a way of sharing insights empirically gathered, over decades of interactive media development, by the author and other children’s desi...

Choice Recommended ReadThis thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development...

Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. In ...

How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be called) the developing world? What do cultural representations indicate about the c...

Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understan...

Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together fresh perspectives and research about young children’s relationships. It e...

How does developmental psychology connect with (what used to be called) the developing world? What do cultural representations indicate about the c...

Every day children enter classrooms crying out for love and relief. Waiting for Mister Rogers reveals a Kindergarten teacher's journey to find answ...

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching. Expert contributors from a...

An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant choices abou...

This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign lang...

What's it like to be an adolescent today? This book explores the problems, the pressures, the opportunities, and the excitement of gaining entry in...

Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care brings together fresh perspectives and research about young children’s relationships. It e...

Volume 3: Assessment of Children and Adolescents provides practical, authoritative guidance in the Rorschach assessment of personality functioning ...

This thought-provoking volume offers psychological perspectives on the formation of empathy and how this determines both antisocial and prosocial b...

Why do people behave in moral ways in some circumstances, but not in others? In order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from trad...

Sexuality in Adolescence considers the latest theory and research on adolescent development, focusing on sexuality as a vital aspect of normal, hea...

Human adults appear different from other animals in their ability to form abstract mental representations that go beyond perceptual similarity. In ...

We acquire concepts such as "atom," "force," "integer," and "democracy" long after we are born; these concepts are not part of the initial cognitiv...

This authoritative volume is a practical, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research on second and foreign lang...

In recent years, the scientific study of signed languages and deaf individuals has greatly enhanced our understanding of deafness, language, and co...

This book uses the case study method to investigate the essence of toddlerhood - the development of sociolinguistic intelligence that will transfor...

Prosocial behavior--broadly defined as voluntary action intended to help or benefit another--has been associated with positive outcomes across the ...

What motivates people to buy guns? To carry them? To use them?The gun violence crisis in the U.S. claims tens of thousands of lives each year. We n...

Originally published in 1986, this book is a result of the first International Conference on Personal Relationships held in 1982. The conference it...

Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book,...

A paradigm-shifting guide for parents and caregivers, this book offers insights, strategies and understanding to navigate middle childhood (ages 6-...

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Childhood Education edited by Alex Collopy offers critical analyses of psychoanalytic theory to pro...

This is the loose-leaf version of Motor Learning and Performance, Seventh Edition With HKPropel Access, which offers students a less expensive, pri...

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any...

This book champions care education in early childhood school contexts, addressing the critical need for an effective and meaningful moral education...

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any...

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet man...

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body ...