HANDBOOK OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE – Seventh Ed.

HANDBOOK OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE - Seventh Ed. by Volume Editors LYNN S. LIBEN ULRICH MULLER pdfHandbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science- Seventh Edition pdf

Development is one of life’s optimistic ideas. It implies not just change but improvement, progress, forward movement, and some sense of positive direction. What constitutes improvement in any human capacity is an open, important, and fascinating question requiring astute theoretical analysis and sound empirical study. So, too, are questions of what accounts for improvement; what enhances it; and what prevents it when it fails to occur. One of the landmark achievements of this edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science is that a full selection of top scholars in the field of human development have offered us state-of-the-science answers to these essential questions.

Compounding the interest of this edition, the concept of development applies to scholarly fields as well as to individuals, and the Handbook’s distinguished history, from its inception more than 80 years ago to the present edition, richly reveals the development of a field. Within the field of human development, the Handbook has had a long and notable tradition as the field’s leading beacon, organizer, and encyclopedia of what’s known. This latest Handbook edition, Child Psychology Book pdf, overflowing with insights and information that go well beyond the scientific knowledge available in previous editions, is proof of the substantial progress made by the field of human development during its still-short (by scholarly standards) history.

Indeed, the history of developmental science has been inextricably intertwined with the history of the Handbook. Like many influential encyclopedias, the Handbook influences the field it reports on. Scholars—especially younger ones—look to it to guide their own work. It serves as an indicator and as a generator, a pool of received findings, and a source for generating new insight.

It is impossible to imagine what the field would look like if Carl Murchison had not assembled a ground-breaking collection of essays on the then-almost-unknown topic of child study in his first Handbook of Child Psychology. That was 1931, at the dawn of a scholarly history that, like every developmental narrative, has proceeded with a combination of continuity and change. What does this history tell us about where the field of developmental science has been, what it has learned, and where it is going? What does it tell us about what’s changed and what has remained the same in the questions that have been asked, in the methods used, and in the theoretical ideas that have been advanced to understand human development?…

Contents

Foreword to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Seventh Edition

Preface
Volume
Preface
Contributors

  1.  REFLECTIONS ON COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT /Lynn S. Liben and Ulrich Miiller
  2.  BRAIN AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / Joan Stiles, Timothy T. Brown, Frank Haist. and Terry L. Jernigan
  3. PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT/ Scott P. Johnson and Erin E. Hannon
  4. MOTOR DEVELOPMENT / Karen E. Adolph and Scott R. Robinson
  5. ATTENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Jelena Rislic and James T. Enns
  6.  MEMORY DEVELOPMENT/ Mark L. Howe
  7.  THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION / Tara Callaghan and John Corbit
  8. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT / Brian MaeWhinney 
  9. GESTURE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / Susan Goldin-Mcadow
  10. THE DEV ELOPMENT OF SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING / Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Charlie Lewis
  11. THE DEV ELOPMENT OF PLAY / Angeline S. Lillard
  12. CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT / Vladimir Sloutsky
  13. THE DEVELOPMENT OF REASONING / Robert B. Ricco
  14. THE DEV ELOPMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTION / Ulrich Muller and Kimberly Kerns
  15. THE DEV ELOPMENT OF TEMPORAL COGNITION / Teresa McCormack
  16. THE DEV ELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING / Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble
  17. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL REASONING / Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant
  18. LITERACY DEVELOPMENT / Christopher J. Lonigan
  19. GENDER AND SOCIAL-COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / Campbell Leaper
  20. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURE / Mary Gauvain and Susan Perez
  21. ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT / Constance Milbrath, Gary E. McPherson, and Margaret S. Osborne
  22. MEDIA AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / Daniel R. Anderson and Heather L. Kirkorian
  23. ATYPICAL COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / Bruce F. Pennington

Author Index
Subject Index

Language: English
Format: PDF
Pages: 1123

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