Each chapter in this book includes a review of key concepts, guided study questions, and section reviews that encourage students' active participation in the learning process; two practice tests help assess mastery of the material.
Anna Freud Notebook (Great Brains of Psychology Notebooks, #2)
by Human Editions
Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption therapist to explain to adoptive parents, birthparents, adult adopted people, and extended family, as well as to those who work with children professionally the developmental stages and challenges one...
Psychology of Child Development
by Professor S Bhattacharya and Srinibas Bhattacharya
Learning Activity & Development
Comparing Theories of Child Development (with InfoTrac (R))
by R. Murray Thomas
Explaining the nature of theories in the field of child development (including why theories are useful and why there are multiple theories), Thomas' highly respected book covers the widest range of theories of any text currently available. Using the following criteria: "Has the theory been popular?," "Has the theory been influential?," and "Is the theory representative of a class or family of theories?," Thomas identifies the goals and describes the findings of more than two dozen theorists and...
The Autism Spectrum Disorder Workbook for Children
by Robert Jason Grant Ed D
The biological mechanisms by which sucking on a pacifier versus tasting a component of milk (sucrose) affect newborns' behaviourial states are investigated in this study of normal calm and agitated babies, as well as a subgroup of infants born to methadone-maintained mothers. The differential effects obtained for tactile and gustatory stimulation under the different conditions are discussed by the authors in the context of the psychobiology of early mother-infant interaction and of its influence...
This is a study of intelligence in children during the second year of life, examining the significance of developmental functions, individual differences, environmental effects and genetic influences. Using data from 408 pairs of twins, the study provides an analysis of the development of general intelligence. It looks at such components as expressive and receptive language abilities, non-verbal ability. visual attentiveness, and memory for locations.
The World of the American West
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today, from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in...
This book has been written to clarify the strategies that are available to practitioners to enable them to plan effective child centred experiences. The book explores how to use Talking and Thinking Floorbooks and the ways in which we can consult children in all areas of play. Introduction by Claire Warden: All of the documents that we use in early education across the UK talk about the issues that are going to be explored in this book. Areas covered include 'childe centred planning', 'autonomy'...
Children's Memory (Understanding Children's Worlds, #2)
by Gabrielle F Principe, Stephen J. Ceci, and Andrea F Greenhoot
This text makes a major contribution to debates about children's credibility in the courtroom, by examining them from the perspective of memory development. * Provides a comprehensive and well-organized review of the latest applied research on children's testimony * Connects this research to different theories of memory development * Covers a broad range of topics, including children's recollection of traumatic events and sources of distortion of autobiographical memory
Child Discipline in African American Families provides and in depth, contextual understanding of African American disciplinary practices. The author argues that contextual perspective of African American child discipline is needed to fully comprehend how and why African American mothers and fathers use discipline to achieve their parenting goals. This book debunks the theory that spanking is the preferred method of child discipline for African American parents. The author provides numerous sourc...
Psych Online is a 130 page annotated reference guide written by Patricia M. Wallace, head of Information Technologies at University of Maryland College University. This updated revision provides ratings for each site with a brief discription of the site. It is an excellent resource for students, professors, and professionals who are serious about using the Internet for research in psychology. It comes in the Total Learning Curve combination package and is a stand-alone salable item as well.
Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions
This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which educational institutions accomplish social integration. It poses the question of whether they can reduce social inequality, - or whether they even facilitate the transformation of heterogeneity into so...
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