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  1. Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition

    By Elizabeth Meins

    Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

    Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book thus constitutes an ambitious attempt to build bridges between the domains of...

    Published June 29th 1997 by Psychology Press

  2. An Introduction to Vygotsky

    Edited by Harry Daniels

    The innovative theories of Lev Vygotsky on thought and speech have become increasingly popular over the last decade. An Introduction to Vygotsky provides students with an accessible overview of his work by combining reprints of key journal and text articles with editorial commentary and suggested...

    Published May 29th 1996 by Routledge

  3. Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence

    By John Cotterell

    Adolescence is a crucial time for the development of social identity. Some young people ease effortlessly into friendships with their peers whilst others experience the pain of rejection or become involved with antisocial groups or gangs. Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence is...

    Published May 22nd 1996 by Routledge

  4. The Development of Young Children's Social-Cognitive Skills

    By Michael A. Forrester

    Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

    Understanding how young children begin to make sense out of the social world has become a major concern within developmental psychology. Over the last 25 years research in this area has raised a number of questions which mirror the confluence of interests from cognitive-developmental and...

    Published February 26th 1995 by Psychology Press

  5. Childhood Social Development

    Contemporary Perspectives

    By Harry McGurk

    This book provides an account of research in action and debate in progress in a selection of areas of childhood social development where significant progress is underway. The chapters are written by an eminent group of British and American developmental psychologists each of whom has made primary...

    Published May 10th 1992 by Psychology Press

  6. Social Interaction and the Development of Language and Cognition

    By Alison F. Garton

    Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology

    For students of developmental psychology, this book should be a useful reference guide to the main concepts concerned with "motherese", scaffolding, socio-cognitive learning and joint problem solving. It is also a contribution to the debate on the influence of social behaviour on development....

    Published January 21st 1992 by Psychology Press

  7. Life-span Development

    Frameworks, Accounts and Strategies

    Series: New Essential Psychology

    Published July 30th 1986 by Routledge