NORMS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; ED. BY LESLIE SMITH

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Nira Granott & Jim Parziale

Microdevelopment is the process of change in abilities, knowledge and understanding during short time-spans. This book presents a new process-oriented view of development and learning based on recent innovations in psychological research. Instead of characterizing abilities at different ages, researchers investigate processes of development and learning that evolve through time to determine progressive changes. With contributions from the foremost researchers in the field, this study will be essential reading for all interested in cognitive and developmental science. - Publisher.

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Cathy Dent-Read, Patricia Zukow-Goldring

This volume brings together three different ecological approaches to the study of behavioral development - ecological realism (Gibsonian), dynamic systems, and epigenetic systems - in a single source so that commonalities and differences may emerge. Eschewing the mechanistic model of development characteristic of behavioralist, psychodynamic, and cognitive theories, researchers from within these three approaches are forging and testing new theories on how behavior develops. Chapter authors present their respective empirical programs of research and comment more broadly on the advantages and disadvantages of their approaches. The research programs presented include such traditional areas as speech perception and locomotion but also include new topics of investigation such as verbal meaning, remembering, infant-caregiver interactions, tool use, and language emergence. Each chapter is followed by a commentary that fosters the dialogue across these varying perspectives.

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Ivan Leudar, Alan Costall

The 'theory of mind' framework has been the fastest growing body of empirical research in contemporary psychology. It has given rise to a range of positions on what it takes to relate to others as intentional beings. This book brings together disparate strands of ToM research, lays out historical roots of the idea and indicates better alternatives.

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Erica Burman

This title presents an updated and integrated perspective on the author's key contribution to a set of urgent debates engaging theory and method, policy and practice across all the disciplines that work with, or lay claim to, children's interests.