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How children develop : 4th US edition

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  • Contributor: DeLoache, Judy S.; Eisenberg, Nancy
    Edition: Fourth edition
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    2014
    Summary:

    With How Children Develop, students get an up-to-date, topically-organized introduction to child development, presented by researchers and teachers who themselves are guiding the field into new directions. The authors emphasize fundamental principles, enduring themes, and important recent studies, avoiding excessive detail and making typically difficult topics easier to grasp.

    Contents:
    • An introduction to child development
    • Prenatal development and the newborn period
    • Biology and behavior
    • Theories of cognitive development
    • Seeing, thinking, and doing in infancy
    • Development of language and symbol use
    • Conceptual development
    • Intelligence and academic achievement
    • Theories of social development
    • Emotional development
    • Attachment to others and development of self
    • The family
    • Peer relationships
    • Moral development
    • Gender development
    • Conclusions.
    Subject(s): Child development
    Original Publisher: New York, NY, Worth Publishers, a Macmillan Higher Education Company
    Language(s): English