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This book will introduce you to studies in developmental psychology that changed the way we think about the discipline today.
Each chapter provides details of the original work and explains their theoretical and empirical impact, before discussing the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were first conducted.
This edition looks at 16 different studies including topics such as the visual cliff, object permanence, and attachment as well as researchers such as Piaget, Vygotsky, and Ainsworth.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Attachment and Early Social Deprivation - Roger Kobak
Chapter 2: Revisiting Ainsworth's Patterns of Infant-Mother Attachment - Ashley M. Groh
Chapter 3: Conditioned Emotional Responses - Thomas H Ollendick and Peter Muris
Chapter 4: Infants on the Edge: Beyond the Visual Cliff - Karen E Adolph, Brianna E Kaplan and Kari S. Kretch
Chapter 5: Beyond Piaget - David Klahr
Chapter 6: Vygotsky on Learning and Development - Mary Gauvain
Chapter 7: Imititation in Infancy - Alan M Slater
Chapter 8: Object Permanence in Infancy - Denis Mareschal and Jordy Kaufman
Chapter 9: Children's Eyewitness Memory and Suggestibility - Kelly McWilliams, Sue D. Hobbs, Daniel Bederian-Gardner, Sarah Bakanosky, and Gail S. Goodman
Chapter 10: How Much Can We Boost IQ? - Wendy Johnson
Chapter 11: Reading and Spelling - Usha Goswami
Chapter 12: Theory of Mind and Autism - Coralie Chevallier
Chapter 13: Moral Development - Gail D Heyman and Kang Lee
Chapter 14: Aggression - Jennifer E Lansford
Chapter 15: Language and Development - Richard N Aslin
Chapter 16: Resilience in Children - Ann S Masten
About the author
Alan Slater is Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Exeter. He is the co-editor of The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology (Blackwell, 1999), Theories of Infant Development (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and An Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Wiley, 2017) as well as the the 5-volume reference work Infancy (SAGE, 2013).
Paul C. Quinn is Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware, USA. He received his ScB and PhD degrees in Psychology from Brown University in 1981 and 1986. Dr. Quinn’s research reflects an enduring interest in concept formation. His work over the last 20 years has been investigating how social category information is extracted from faces (e.g., gender, race) and has the goal of understanding how the early emergence of cognitive organization during infancy may impact subsequent conceptual and social development. This work has been supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation, and has generated over 225 journal and book chapter publications, along with a co-edited book, The Making of Human Concepts (2010, Oxford Series in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience). Dr. Quinn is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, and Psychonomic Society, and in 2013, he received the Francis Alison Award (the University of Delaware’s highest faculty honor). He has been editor of Developmental Science since 2009.
Summary
A student-friendly introduction to studies in developmental psychology that changed the way we think about the discipline today
