Personality, Development and Learning

Part 1 Human development: children and the family; our adult world and its roots in infancy; the stages of the intellectual development of the child; modifiability of cognitive development; the role of play in the problem-solving of children 3-5 years old; characteristics of maternal and paternal behaviour in traditional and non-traditional Swedish families. Part 2 Learning - theoretical and practical issues: an analysis of simple learning situations; the Tvind schools; a teacher's implicit model of how children learn; remembering drink orders - the memory skills of cocktail waitresses; measurement constructs and psychological structure - psychometrics; conversations with children; into print - reading and language growth. Part 3 Personality and self: am I me or am I the situation? personal dispositions, situations and interactionism in personality; sources of information about the self; the effects of teachers' behaviour on pupils' attributions - a review; maladjusted children and the child guidance service; withdrawal units and the psychology of problem behaviour. Part 4 Psychology in practice: psychology and education; intelligence tests and educational reform in England and Wales in the 1940s; the learning-disabilities test battery - empirical and social issues; biological explanations of sex-role stereotypes; the search for effective schools; cognitive development and the preschool; education can compensate.