Developmental Psychology Arena

Biology and Knowledge Revisited

From Neurogenesis to Psychogenesis

• Edited by Sue Taylor Parker, Jonas Langer, Constance Milbrath

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and...

Published December 7th 2004 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Cognitive Development

• By Lisa Oakley

Cognitive Development provides a detailed and accessible account of three main areas: theories of cognitive development, the development of measured intelligence and the development of...

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Child Development and Teaching Pupils with Special Educational Needs

• By Anne Anderson, Richard Gerrish, Lyn Layton, Jenny Morgan, Christina Tilstone, Anna Williams

A thought-provoking book which provides a framework for understanding the physical, sensory, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive development of children with special educational needs. It...

Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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Development and Reasoning

A special issue of the journal Thinking and Reasoning

• Edited by Pierre Barrouillet, Henry Markovits

The study of deductive reasoning is one of the key areas in cognitive psychology. Much of the initial impetus for studies in this field came...

Published May 13th 2004 by Psychology Press.

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The Development of the Mediated Mind

Sociocultural Context and Cognitive Development

• Edited by Joan M. Lucariello, Judith A. Hudson, Robyn Fivush, Patricia J. Bauer

This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory. The "mediated mind" is a...

Published April 8th 2004 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World

• By Claire Golomb

This book places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development...

Published July 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural Processes

• Edited by Janette Benson, Catherine Raeff

Several recent analyses have focused on how social and cultural factors shape development, but less well understood are the individual constructive processes involved in this...

Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.

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Autobiographical Memory and the Construction of A Narrative Self

Developmental and Cultural Perspectives

• Edited by Robyn Fivush, Catherine A. Haden

It is a truism in psychology that self and autobiographical memory are linked, yet we still know surprisingly little about the nature of this relation....

Published March 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Cradle of Culture and What Children Know About Writing and Numbers Before Being

• By Liliana Tolchinsky

This book provides a thrilling description of preliterate children's developing ideas about writing and numerals, and it illustrates well the many ways in which cultural...

Published January 1st 2003 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development

The Development and Consequences of Symbolic Communication

• Edited by Eric Amsel, James P. Byrnes

Language, Literacy, and Cognitive Development addresses the impact of language and literacy on cognitive development.

Top researchers examine the cognitive significance of the growth in children's...

Published December 1st 2002 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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