Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, with this volume serving as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students

Janette B. Benson (Series edited by)

9780128121221, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 20 February 2017

312 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.57 kg

"In this volume the editor, Janette E. Benson, has brought together three different examples of scientific advance. Four of the chapters provide innovative technologies, novel data, and fresh conceptualizations. An additional two chapters afford fresh methodologies and data that - contrary to their authors’ intent - support well accepted theoretical formulations.

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 52, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, with this volume serving as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

1. How Does Experience Shape Early Development? Considering the Role of Top-Down Mechanisms 2. Applications of Dynamic Systems Theory to Cognition and Development: New Frontiers 3. Mental Objects in Working Memory: Development of Basic Capacity or of Cognitive Completion? 4. Why Neighborhoods (and How We Study Them) Matter for Adolescent Development 5. How Children Learn to Navigate the Symbolic World of Pictures: The Importance of the Artist's Mind and Differentiating Picture Modalities 6. Perspectives on Perspective Taking: How Children Think About the Minds of Others 7. The Development of Tactile Perception 8. The Development of Body Image and Weight Bias in Childhood

Subject Areas: Psychotherapy [MMJT], Educational psychology [JNC], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]