Book Series
Essays in Developmental Psychology
New & Published Titles:
Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-301-9 (Psychology Press)
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Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia
Most studies on reading have been conducted with English-speaking subjects. It is crucial to also examine studies conducted in different languages, in order to highlight…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-592-1 (Psychology Press)
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The Resilience of Language
What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her… read more2005 | Paperback: 978-1-84169-436-8 (Psychology Press)
Young Children's Thinking about Biological World
Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-1-84169-041-4 (Psychology Press)
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Language Development and Social Interaction in Blind Children
This book provides an up-to-date account of blind children's developing communicative abilities with particular emphasis on social cognition and language acquisition from infancy to early… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-86377-795-0 (Psychology Press)
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The Foundation of Literacy
The Child's Acquisition of the Alphabetic Principle
This monograph brings together important research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-86377-818-6 (Psychology Press)
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-86377-468-3 (Psychology Press)
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Knowing Children
Experiments in Conversation and Cognition
It has often been maintained that young children's knowledge is limited to perceptual appearances. In this "preoperational" stage of development, there are profound conceptual limitations… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-86377-767-7 (Psychology Press)
Acquiring a Conception of Mind
A Review of Psychological Research and Theory
It seems the mind has evolved into such a powerful form that we are able to go beyond knowing the world and move towards knowing… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-86377-737-0 (Psychology Press)
Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of… read more1996 | Paperback: 978-0-86377-403-4 (Psychology Press)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Music and Infants
By Sandra Trehub
To be published January 10th 2010
Developmental Psychopathology
By Jacob A. Burack
To be published January 1st 2010
Child's Theory Of The World
By Dr Olivera Petrovich
To be published October 30th 2009