Understanding children's development
By: Peter K. Smith, Helen Cowie, Mark Blades.
Contributors: Cowie, Helen.; Blades, Mark.
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: Basic psychology; Basic psychology (Oxford, England)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
Subjects: Child psychology.; Child development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [592]-643) and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying development; title: Biological and cultural theories of development; title: Prenatal development and birth; title: Parents and families; title: The peer group; title: Becoming socially aware; title: Play; title: Helping others and moral development; title: Adolescence; title: Perception; title: Language; title: Cognition : Piaget's theory; title: Cognition : the information processing approach; title: Children's understanding of mind; title: Learning in a social context; title: Intelligence and attainment; title: Deprivation and enrichment : risk and resilience; title: Appendix A: Ethical principles for conducting research with human participants; title: Appendix B: Careers in psychology.