Advances in Child Development and Behavior (Volume 37) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123744709 ISBN 13: 9780123744708

Publisher: Academic Press, 2009

Synopsis

Volume 37 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 8 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including the role of dyadic communication in infant social-cognitive development; space, number and the atypically developing brain; development from a behavioral genetics perspective; nonhuman primate studies of individual differences in pathways of lifespan development; the development of autobiographical memory: origins and consequences; the maturation of cognitive control and the adolescent brain; the developmental origin of naïve psychology; and children’s reasoning about traits. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions of various developmental psychology specializations. This volume serves as an invaluable resource for psychology researchers and advanced psychology students.

• Goes in depth to address 10 different developmental and educational psychology topics
• A necessary resource for both psychology researchers and students

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123744709
• ISBN 13: 9780123744708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Bauer Patricia J.