Peter Mitchell, Fenja Ziegler

Fundamentals of Developmental Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of the highly successful Fundamentals of Development: The Psychology of Childhood has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the exciting new findings in the thriving area of developmental psychology.

The book addresses a number of fascinating questions including:

• Are children born good or bad?
• What do children understand about the mind?
• What roles do nature and nurture play in child development?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135007980
• Artikelnr.: 38248710

Autorenporträt

Peter Mitchell is Professor in Cognitive Development in the School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. His main research interests are the development of an understanding of the mind in typical and atypical development and visuo-spatial abilities in autism. He has served as Chair of the Developmental Section of the British Psychological Society (2004-2006) and since 2007 he has served as editor of the British Journal of Psychology.

Fenja Ziegler is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Lincoln. Fenja's main research interest is in imagination and how it relates to social decision-making, mentalising and perspective-taking in narrative and space, which she studies in children and adults.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Themes and Perspectives in Developmental Psychology. 2. Methodological
Approaches. 3. The Development of Thinking. 4. Does Piaget's theory stand
up to examination? 5. What children understand about the mind. 6.
Developmental disorders. 7. Autism. 8. Numerical development: What do young
children understand about the world of numbers? 9. Developing an ability to
see the world. 10. Developing an ability to draw. 11. The role of heredity
and environment in intelligence. 12. Language development. 13. Developing
an ability to communicate. 14. Parenting and the development of love and
attachment. 15. Moral development. 16. Development of anti-social
behaviour. 17. Freud's theory of personality development. 18. References.
19. Glossary