Developmental Psychology Arena

The Nature of Intellectual Styles

• By Li-fang Zhang, Robert J. Sternberg

This book provides an up-to-date, panoramic picture of the field of intellectual styles through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on...

Published March 7th 2006 by Routledge.

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The Development of Commonsense Psychology

• By Chris Moore

How do children develop an understanding of people as psychological entities - as feeling, thinking beings? How do they come to understand human behavior as...

Published February 3rd 2006 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Development and Education of the Mind

The Selected Works of Howard Gardner

• By Howard Gardner

Leading American psychologist and educator Howard Gardner has assembled his most important writings about education. Spanning over thirty years, this collection reveals the thinking, the...

Published November 24th 2005 by Routledge.

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Introducing Cognitive Development

• By Laura M. Taylor

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these...

Published October 6th 2005 by Psychology Press.

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Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation

Developmental and Comparative Perspectives

• Edited by Laura Namy

Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives is the proceedings of a workshop held at Emory University in 2002 to discuss the difficult...

Published August 12th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Development of Judgment and Decision Making in Children and Adolescents

• Edited by Janis E. Jacobs, Paul A. Klaczynski

In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to...

Published May 31st 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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A Young Mind in a Growing Brain

• By Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz

A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first...

Published May 20th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Action As An Organizer of Learning and Development

Volume 33 in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology Series

• Edited by John J. Rieser, Jeffrey J. Lockman, Charles A. Nelson

This is the 33rd volume in the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology held in October 2002. The symposium was held to honor the scientific and...

Published April 26th 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Building Object Categories in Developmental Time

• Edited by Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, David H. Rakison

The study of object category development is a central concern in the field of cognitive science. Researchers investigating visual and auditory perception, cognition, language acquisition,...

Published March 2nd 2005 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Children's Understanding of Society

• Edited by Martyn Barrett, Eithne Buchanan-Barrow

A state-of-the-art review of the research in this area, this collection covers children's understanding of family, school, economics, race, politics and gender roles. Recent changes...

Published December 10th 2004 by Psychology Press.

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