Developmental Psychologists
Research Adventures Across the Lifespan
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-07-007259-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work provides a collection of personal adventures that are intended to enrich the material presented in a typical human development course. It contains contributions by developmental psychologists which cover a broad range of topics that closely parallel texts in developmental psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
420 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-007259-6 (9780070072596)
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Content
Nature and nurture; the improvising infant - learning about learning to move; in pursuit of receptive language; looking backward and forward for the causes and consequences of child maltreatment; attachment and emotional development - from clinic to research to policy; in search of the good heart; falling into gender role research; a case of academic schizophrenia; father, play and emotion - a research odyssey; unexpected opportunities - confessions of an eclectic developmentalist; is one sex morally superior?; the impact of employment on adolescent development; the contextual history of my research on adolescent temperament; the return of Sherlock Holmes - a pilgrim's programmes in memory and ageing research; the natural history of a longitudinal study; socioemotional selectivity - a life-span developmental account of social behaviour; stress and adaptation in adulthood; the cave at the end of the world - how the unknowing studied the unknowable.