Developmental Psychology category: 2023 books
Adaptive Origins
Evolution and Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
In this text, students are invited to rethink psychology by grounding it in the natural sciences with the understanding that evolutionary and developmental processes work together with culture to solve problems of human adaptation. These processes are cast as interdependent: Development cannot...
Piaget's Theory
Prospects and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume marks the 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society. Some of the American contributors were among the first to introduce Piaget to developmental and educational psychology in the United States, while some of the international contributors worked with Piaget to develop his program...
by Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first decade and what has been learned about brain growth. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience working...
by Robert M. Hodapp
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of developmental disabilities. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume is the result of a symposium titled "Constructivist Approaches to Atypical Development and Developmental Psychopathology."
What emerges from the work included here is a record of innovative extensions, refinements, and applications of the concept of constructivism.
The...
Neuroscience of Cognitive Development
The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
A new understanding of cognitive development from the perspective of neuroscience
This book provides a state-of-the-art understanding of the neural bases of cognitive development. Although the field of developmental cognitive neuroscience is still in its infancy, the authors effectively demonstrate...
The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior
Theory, Research and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This edited book summarizes the current state of knowledge on the development of criminal and antisocial behavior over the life course. It focuses mainly on the developmental perspective, which has had a paradigmatic influence on current theoretical and empirical works in criminology. With a multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Traditionally, developmental psychology has its focus on individuals. Developmentalists aim to describe regularities in individuals' change and development across time, to explain the processes and mechanisms that are involved in producing change and regularity, and eventually, to design strategies...
by Robert M. Hodapp
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities is an ongoing scholarly look at research into the causes, effects, classification systems, syndromes, etc. of developmental disabilities. Contributors come from wide-ranging perspectives, including genetics, psychology, education, and...
Exploring Developmental Theories
Toward A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Through the evaluation and integration of developmental theories, this volume proposes a new structural/behavioral model of development. Dr. Horowitz’s model helps account for both the behavioral development of children (with extensions across the life-span) and for the universal and non-universal...
Challenges To Developmental Paradigms
Implications for Theory, Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This book unites an interdisciplinary body of experts in child development whose research and ideas challenge existing theories and conventional clinical practice in a variety of domains of early child development. This unique volume fills a gap in existing developmental research and offers applications...
The Emergence of A Discipline
Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Compiled from papers presented at the Rochester Symposium on Developmental Psychopathology, this is the first book of its kind devoted to disseminating theory and research in the field of psychopathology. Contributions to this text are unified by their incorporation of developmental principles into...
Ecobehavioral Analysis and Developmental Disabilities
The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Ecobehavioral analysis", the merging of social ecological studies and J.R. Kantor's theory of interbehavioral psychology, was termed just over a decade ago. Since then, innovative trends emerging in the field of developmental disabilities warrant a comprehensive update. Ecobehavioral Analysis...
A Lifetime of Communication
Transformations Through Relational Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth. In this distinctive work, author Julie Yingling utilizes a single case example of a child, her parents, and other influential figures to demonstrate developmental interaction and transformational...