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Developmental Psychology: A Student's Handbook is a major textbook that provides an up-to-date account of theory and research in the rapidly-changing field of child development. Margaret Harris and George Butterworth have produced an outstanding volume that includes recent research from Britain, Europe, and the USA.

• Part 1: A Framework for Developmental Psychology.
  • Chapter 1.
    • A Brief History of Developmental Psychology.
    • The Developmental Principle.
    • The Evolution of Development.
    • The Emergence of Developmental Psychology.
    • Fundamental Questions in Developmental Psychology.
  • Chapter 2.
    • Developmental Psychology in the 20th Century.
    • Learning or Maturation: The Rise of Opposing Schools.
    • Jean Piaget (1896-1980).
    • Lev Semeonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934).
    • John Bowlby (1907-1990).
  • Chapter 3.
    • Observing and Modelling Developmental Change.
    • The Epigenetic Landscape. Stage Theories of Development.
    • The Dynamic Systems Approach.
    • The Connectionist Approach.
    • Information-processing Approaches.
    • Carrying Out Research in Developmental Psychology.
    • Methods of Data Collection.
• Part 2: Early Development.
  • Chapter 4.
    • Development from Conception to Birth.
    • Stages in Prenatal Development.
    • Behaviour in the Foetus.
    • Evolution and Development of the Brain.
    • Sitting, Standing, and Walking.
    • The Sensory Capacities of the Neonate.
    • Childbirth.
  • Chapter 5.
    • Cognitive Development in Infancy.
    • Piaget's Theory of Infant Cognition.
    • Piaget's Account of the Development of the Object Concept.
    • Infants' Perception of Objects: An Alternative to Piaget.
    • Memory in Infancy.
    • Reaching and Grasping.
  • Chapter 6.
    • Early Social Development.
    • Recognising Oneself.
    • Recognising Other People.
    • Smiling and Social Recognition.
    • Imitating Other People.
    • Play.
    • The Development of Attachment.
    • Responses to Emotions.
    • Differences in Interaction with Boys and Girls.
  • Chapter 7.
    • The Beginnings of Language Development.
    • The Perception of Speech Sounds.
    • The Development of Babbling.
    • Learning to Say Words.
    • The Social Context of Early Language Development.
• Part 3: The Preschool Years.
  • Chapter 8.
    • Language Development in the Preschool Years.
    • Combining Words.
    • Morphological Development.
    • Inside-out Theories.
    • Outside-in Theories.
    • The Role of Language Input.
    • Experimental Studies of Early Grammatical Understanding.
    • The Language Abilities of Chimpanzees.
    • Vocabulary Development in the School Years.
  • Chapter 9.
    • Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years.
    • Piaget's Theory of Preoperational Reasoning.
    • Criticisms of Piaget's Tests of Preoperational Thinking.
    • Problem Solving. Reasoning by Analogy.
    • Appearance and Reality.
    • Children's Drawing.
  • Chapter 10.
    • Social Development in the Preschool Years.
    • The Continuing Development of Self-recognition.
    • The Development of Pretend Play.
    • Fantasy and Imagination.
    • Gender Differences in Play.
    • The Development of Gender Identity.
    • Social Cognition and Theory of Mind.
    • Prosocial Behaviour.
    • The Formation of Friendships.
• Part 4: The School Years.
  • Chapter 11.
    • Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood.
    • Social and Biological Markers of Middle Childhood.
    • Piaget's Theory of Concrete Operational Reasoning.
    • Criticisms of Piaget's Account of Concrete Operational Reasoning.
    • Developmental Changes in Problem Solving.
  • Chapter 12.
    • Learning to Read and Spell.
    • Orthographic Regularity.
    • Theories of Learning to Read.
    • Learning to Read Alphabetic Scripts.
    • Learning to Read Non-alphabetic Scripts.
    • Predictors of Reading Success.
    • Learning to Spell.
    • Learning to Read and Write Braille.
    • Difficulties with Learning to Read and Spell.
  • Chapter 13.
    • Learning to do Mathematics.
    • Early Knowledge of Numbers.
    • Learning to Count.
    • Adding and Subtracting Objects.
    • Adding and Subtracting Numbers.
    • Cross-cultural Differences in Mathematical Ability.
  • Chapter 14.
    • Social Development in the School Years.
    • Interactions with Other Children.
    • Friendships.
    • Bullying.
    • Piagetian and neo-Piagetian Accounts of Moral Reasoning.
    • Alternative Accounts of Moral Development.
    • Emotional Development.
  • Chapter 15.
    • Adolescence.
    • Social and Biological Markers of Adolescence.

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