Early Childhood Development and Later Outcome

Informationen zum Autor Sabina Pauen is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Heidelberg. Her work focuses on early brain maturation and cognitive development. Klappentext This book assesses current research on infant psychology and the relationship between cognitive development and future achievement. Zusammenfassung Theories of infant cognition have radically transformed over the span of less than a century. In Early Childhood Development and Later Outcome! Sabina Pauen presents essays reflecting cutting-edge research on infant developmental psychology and on the profound consequences of early childhood development for future achievement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: looking back and looking forward: milestones in research on early development Sabina Pauen and Marc Bornstein; 1. The beginnings of conceptual development Jean M. Mandler and Judy DeLoach; 2. Core cognition and beyond: the acquisition of physical and numerical knowledge Renee Baillargeon and Susan Carey; 3. Learning from and about the social world Tricia Striano and Amanda Woodward; 4. Acquiring language: learning the spoken and the written word Sandra Waxman and Usha Goswami; 5. Infant cognitive functioning and mental development Marc Bornstein and J. Colombo; 6. Early hazards to brain development: effects of early institutionalization on brain and behavioral development Charles A. Nelson III, Nathan A. Fox and Charles H. Zeanah; 7. Non-parental care and emotional development Michael E. Lamb.

Product details

• Authors: Sabina Pauen, Sabina M. Pauen, Sabina M. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heide Pauen
• Assisted by: Sabina Pauen (Editor), Sabina M. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Pauen (Editor), Pauen Sabina M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.10.2012
• EAN: 9780521765503
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76550-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Jacobs Foundation Series on Ad; The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology