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100			_aMeadows, Sara
245			_aUnderstanding Child Development: Psychological Perspectives & Applications
260			_aNew York _bRoutledge _c2018
300			_a342p
506			_2Contents 1. Introducing the Study of Child Development • Conceptual Issues • Children's Place in History and Culture • The "Biological", "Social" and "Individual 'Causes of Development • Continuity and Discontinuity in Development • How Conceptualising Child Development Leads to Researching • Child Development: Some Methodological Issues • Scientific Answers to Questions Abour Child Development • Cross-Sectional Studies -'Getting Age Differences' • Longitudinal Studies • 'Stages in Development • Systems Theories • Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Theory of Developmental Systems • Multiple Factors at Multiple Levels • Individuals Are Active Producers of Their Own Development 2. Biological Bases of Child Development: Evolution and Genes • Evolution and Child Development • Adaptation • Neoteny, Heterochrony and the Timing of Developmental Events • 'Evo-Devo: Developmental Psychology and Evolutionary Theory • Humans Have Evolved to Be Social • Humans' Reproductive Strategy Implies They Will Invest • in Their Offspring • Genes and Child Development • Genes and Experience as Influences on Development • Genetic Anomalies and Different Development • Gene Expression • Epigenesis Early Experience, Gene Expression and Development Over Generations • Smoking, Gene Expression and Development • Deprivation of Maternal Care, Gene Expression, Serotonin and Psychological Disorders • Phenylketonuria: An Example of Why Even Gene-Caused • Disorders Are Not Solely Caused by Genes • Summary 3. Biological Bases of Child Development: Brain Development • Some Basic Points About Brains and Their Role in Child Development • An Introductory Description of the Brain • Brain Development and Developmental Psychology • Brains, Bodies and Stress • Stress and the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) • Stress and the HPA Axis: Cortisol • Stress and the Immune System • Stress and the Social Brain • Developmental Fine-Tuning of Stress Systems • Stress and Parenting • Stress and Peers Stress and Executive Functions • Emotion Regulation • Testosterone and Sex Differences in Behaviour • Psychoneuroendocrinology and Child Development: A Summary 4. Big Developmental Theories: Piaget, Information-Processing, Vygotsky Cognitive Development: Piaget, Information-Processing • and Vygotsky • Piagetian Theory • Causes of Cognitive Development • Equilibration • Stages • Information-Processing Approaches • Capacity, Processes and Knowledge • Representations • Inhibition and Flexibility • Rules, Algorithms and Efficiency • Developmental Mechanisms • Cognition and its Social Construction • Language and Thought • The Zone of Proximal Development' • Cognitive Development is Socio-Cultural 5. The Development of Cognitive Skills • Perception • Methodology in Perceptual Development • Perceptual Behaviour • Findings About Perceptual Development • Executive Functions: Attention, Memory and Metacognition • Attention • Memory • The Basic Structure and Processes of Memory • What Develops in Memory? Organisation of Detail, • Inferential Links and Memory Strategies • Metamemory • Infantile Amnesia, Episodic Memory and Autobiographical • Memory • Metacognition • Teaching Thinking Skills • Social Cognition • Diagnosing Mental States • Moral Reasoning • Children's Moral Reasoning • Links Between Moral Reasoning, Identity and Emotion 6. Language Development • Infants' Perception of Speech Sounds • Infants Production of Speech Sounds • Beginning to Use Words • Words and Their Functions: Using Words as Names • Constraints on Learning New Words • The Growth of Vocabulary • From Single Words to Sentences • Language Acquisition Devices • Language Acquisition Principles • Language Acquisition Support Systems • Children's Metalinguistic Behaviour • Children With Specific Language Impairment • Biological Bases of Language Development 7. Cognition and Education • Reading: Linking Written Word, Sound and Meaning • Learning to Read in a Literate Environment • Component Skills of Reading • Children With Reading Problems • Biological Bases of Dyslexia • Numeracy 8. Personality, Emotion Regulation and an Introduction to Developmental Psychopathology • Physiological Systems for Stress Management • Experiential and Developmental Differences in Coping With Stress • Mechanisms for Developmental Differences in Self-Regulation • Developmental Changes in Reaction to Stress • Emotional Self-Regulation • Emotional Self-Regulation and Psychosocial Disorders • Personality Development and Life Events: Stage Models Temperament • The Self Concept 198 The Existential Self • The 'Me': The Categorical Self Concept 200 Functions of Self Concept • The Development of Self Concept in Childhood • Self Concept in Adolescence • Self Concept, Success and Strategies: Entity and Incremental Theories • Self-Conscious Emotions: Pride, Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment and Low Self-Esteem • Emotion, Social Development and the Development of Well-Being 207 Mastery • Developing a Sense of Mastery • Depression • Depression and Daily Life Stresses, Brain Development and Personality • Social Support and Depression • Early Life Events and Depression • Macro system Issues and Depression • Anxiety 9. Social Relationships and the Family • Infant-Adult Interaction • Parenting • Bonding and Maternal Instinct • Attachment • Describing Relationships • Early Experience and Later Effects • Methodological and Conceptual Problems • "Maternal Deprivation' and Maternal Privation • Child-Rearing Techniques • Dimensions of Parenting • Warmth and Responsivity • Discipline and Control • Adoption • Sibling Relationships • Genetic and Experiential Factors in Sibling Resemblance • Birth Order and Sibling Socialisation • Sibling Reciprocity and Complementarity • Sibling Relationships and Family Conflict • Sibling Relationships and Fairness Issues • Sibling Relationships in Adolescence and Adulthood • Summary 10. Peers and the Child as Social Person • Development of Peer Relations • Attachment and Parent Influences on Peer Relationships • Peer Group Popularity and Teachers' Views • Peer Difficulties and Externalising Problems: • Peer Difficulties and Internalising Problems • Adolescents and Their Peers • Popularity and Unpopularity with Adolescent Peers • Adolescents and Romantic Relationships Bullying and Aggression • Developmental Experiences Associated with Risk of Becoming a Bally or a Victim • Gender • Socio-Cultural Theories of Gender • Development of Sex Differences in Children • Infancy Differences • Differences in the Preschool and Early School Years Influences on the Development of a Gendered Social World: Parents • Influences on the Development of a Gendered Social World: Siblings • Influences on the Development of a Gendered Social World: Peers • Influences on the Development of a Gendered Social World: Schools • Learning the Social World of School • Children and Their Fellow Pupils 268 Children and the Media • Media Use, Decline in Physical Activity, Diet and the Obesity Epidemic • Media the and the Development of Cognitive Skills • Media and Violence • Psychological Processes in Children's Response to Media Violence 11. Play • Defining Play • Theories of the Causes of Play • Some Possible Functions of Play • Arousal Modulation • Practising Adult Activities • Allowing Behavioural Recombination • Emotional and Social Functions of Play • The Development of Play Behaviours • On the Importance of Play • Play • Key Terms • Bibliography • Index
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