Child Psychology: With CD and OLC Bi-Card
A Contemporary View Point
6th Edition
Published on 1. December 2005
Book
Mixed media product
978-0-07-125192-1 (ISBN)
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Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
1635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-125192-1 (9780071251921)
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Ross D. Parke is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Family Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is a past President of Division 7, the Developmental Psychology Division, of the American Psychological Association, and in 1995 received the g. Stanley Hall Award from this APA division. Park was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997. He is currently editor of the Journal of Family Psychology and has served as editor of Developmental Psychology and as associate editor of Child Development. Parke is author of Fatherhood; co-author of The Throwaway Father, with Armin Brott; and co-editor of Family-Peer Relationships: In Search of the Linkages, with Gary Ladd, Children in Time and Place, with Glen Elder and John Modell, and Exploring Family Relationships with other Social Contexts, with Sheppard Kellam. Parke's research has focused on early social relationships in infancy and childhood. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and is well known for his early work on the effects of punishment, aggression, and child abuse and for his work on the father's role in infancy and early childhood. His current work focuses on the link between family and peer social systems and on the impact of economic stress on families of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Virginia Otis Locke has been a professional writer and editor for more than twenty years. She is an author of Introduction to Theories of Personality,, with Calvin Hall, Gardner Lindzey, John Loehlin, and Martin Manosevitz, and of several other books. Both while a senior development editor at Prentice Hall and as a freelance writer-editor, Locke has developed many books in the behavioral sciences. As writer-editor at Cornell Medical College/New York Hospital Medical Center, she also wrote and edited professional and lay articles in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Locke received her B.A. from Barnard College and earned her M.A. in the doctoral clinical psychology program at Duke University. For several years she was a staff psychologist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, New York City. Her biography is included in Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women. Locke is studying elementary education and plans to teach in the early grades.
Content
1. Child Development: Themes, Theories, and MethodsThemes of DevelopmentTheoretical Perspectives on DevelopmentDevelopmental Themes and Theoretical Perspectives: An OverviewMaking the Connections 1.1Research Methods in Child PsychologyMaking the Connections 1.2SummaryExplore and Discuss2. Heredity and the EnvironmentThe Process of Genetic TransmissionGenetic Influences on DevelopmentGenetic Counseling and Genetic EngineeringHeredity-Environment InteractionsHeredity, Environment, and Individual DifferencesMaking the Connections 2SummaryExplore and Discuss3. Prenatal Development and BirthStages of Prenatal DevelopmentRisks in the Prenatal EnvironmentBirth and the Beginnings of LifeVulnerability and Resilience in Children at RiskMaking the Connections 3SummaryExplore and Discuss4. Infancy: Sensation, Perception, and LearningThe NewbornThe Infant's Sensory and Perceptual CapacitiesEarly Learning and MemoryMaking the Connections 4SummaryExplore and Discuss5. The Child's Growth: Brain, Body, Motor Skills, and Sexual MaturationBrain Development in InfancyMotor DevelopmentPhysical GrowthSexual MaturationMaking the Connections 5SummaryExplore and Discuss6. Emotional Development and AttachmentEarly Emotional DevelopmentRecognizing Emotions in OthersThe Beginnings of Specific EmotionsLearning to Regulate EmotionsHow Children Think about EmotionsThe Development of AttachmentThe Nature and Quality of AttachmentMaking the Connections 6SummaryExplore and Discuss7. Language and CommunicationThe Components of Language: Phonology, Semantics, Grammar, and PragmaticsTheories of Language DevelopmentThe Antecedents of Language DevelopmentSemantic Development: The Power of WordsThe Acquistion of Grammar: From Words to SentencesLearning the Social and Creative Uses of LanguageMetalinguistic Awareness: Knowing About LanguageBilingualism and Language DevelopmentMaking the Connections 7SummaryExplore and Discuss8. Cognitive Development: Piaget and VygotskyPiaget's Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentPiaget's Main Tenet: The Child Actively Seeks KnowledgeThe Stages of Cognitive DevelopmentEvaluation of Piaget's TheoryVygotsky's Sociocultual Theory of Cognitive DevelopmentEvaluation of Vygotsky's TheoryMaking the Connections 8SummaryExplore and Discuss9. Cognitive Development: The Information-Processing ApproachInformation-Processing ThoeryDevelopmental Changes in Some Significant Cognitive AbilitiesMetacognitionMaking the Connections 9SummaryExplore and Discuss10. Intelligence and AchievementTheories of IntelligenceThe Traditional Approach: Testing IntelligenceWhy do People Differ in Measured Intelligence?Achievement Motivation and Intellectual PerformanceEthnicity, Social Class, and Intellectual PerformanceCognitive Intervention StudesBeyond the Norms: Giftedness and Mental RetardationCreativityMaking the Connections 10SummaryExplore and Discuss11. The FamilyThe Family SystemSocial Class, Ethnicity, and SocializationThe Changing American FamilyChild Abuse with the FamilyMaking the Connections 11SummaryExplore and Discuss12. Expanding the Social World: Peers and FriendsHow Peer Interactions Begin: Developmental PatternsPeers as SocializersPeer AcceptancePromoters of Peer Acceptance: Parents and TeachersWhen Peers become FriendsParents, Peers, or Both?From Dyads to GroupsPeer Groups in Different CulturesMaking the Connections 12SummaryExplore and Discuss13. Gender Roles and Gender DifferencesDefining Sex and GenderGender-Role Standards and StereotypesBiological Factors in Gender DifferencesCognitive Factors in Gender TypingInfluence of the Family on Gender TypingExtrafamilial Influences on Gender RolesAndrogynyMaking the Connections 13SummaryExplore and Discuss14. Morality, Altruism, and AggressionAn Overview of Moral DevelopmentCognitive Theories of Moral DevelopmentThe Behavioral Side of Moral DevelopmentThe Evolution of Prosocial and Altruistic BehaviorsThe Development of AggressionMaking the Connections 14SummaryExplore and Discuss15. Developmental PsychopathologyThe Developmental Approach to PsychopathologyWhat is Abnormal?Classifying Child PsychopathologySome Psychological Disorders that Affect ChildrenTreating and Preventing Child Psychological DisordersMaking the Connections 15SummaryExplore and Discuss