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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Themes and Perspectives in Developmental Psychology | |
Behaviorism | |
Nativism | |
Maturation and Ethology | |
Stage Theories: Freud and Piaget | |
Developmental Psychology | |
Summary | |
The Development of Thinking | |
Stages of Cognitive Development | |
Piaget's Explanation of Cognitive Development | |
Traditional Learning Theory as a Contrasting Explanation of Development | |
A Supplement to Piaget's Theory: Self-centered Adolescents | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Do Piaget's Theory and Findings Stand Up to Examination? Infant Competence | |
Competence in Early Childhood | |
Concrete Thought in Adolescence | |
The Impact of Post-Piagetian Research | |
Constructivism and Social Constructivism | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
What Children Understand about the Mind | |
Have Children Been Underestimated? | |
Is Development Stage-like? | |
What Causes Development? | |
Competence in Deception | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Autism | |
What is Autism? | |
The Theory of Mind Hypothesis | |
Can Some Children with Autism Acknowledge False Belief? | |
Inflexibility in Thought | |
Weak Central Coherence | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Developing an Ability to See the World | |
Perception of the World as 3-D | |
Perception of Social Stimuli | |
The Role of Experience and Learning in Perceptual Development | |
Summary | |
Developing an Ability to Draw | |
Intellectual Realism | |
Is Intellectual Realism Confined to Early Childhood? | |
Size of Drawing as an Indication of Significance of the Topic | |
Children's Drawings in Cases of Incest | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
The Role of Heredity and Environment in Intelligence | |
What is Inherited? | |
Intelligence: Heredity versus Environment | |
Describing and Testing the Concept of Intelligence | |
Problems with Testing Intelligence | |
Heritability of Intelligence | |
Evaluating the Twin Studies | |
Environmental Factors and IQ | |
The Social Environment | |
IQ, Elitism, and Racism | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Language Development | |
The Components of Language | |
A Description of Language Development | |
Vocabulary Development | |
Theories of Language Acquisition | |
Chomsky's Theory of Innate Language Development | |
A Second Look at the Environment | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Developing an Ability to Communicate | |
Egocentric Speech | |
Young Children's Sensitivity to Their Listener | |
Strengths and Weaknesses in Young Children's Communication | |
Do Young Children Treat Utterances as Clues to Meaning? | |
Children Overestimate Their Ability to Interpret Correctly | |
Are Young Children Too Literal? | |
Evaluating Utterances and Detecting Ambiguity | |
Is Egocentrism Responsible for Children's Communicative Difficulties? | |
Summary | |
Parenting and the Development of Love and Attachment | |
Parenting | |
Love | |
Attachment | |
Types of Attachment | |
The Sociobiology of Attachment | |
Single versus Multiple Attachments | |
Delinquency | |
Internal Working Model | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Freud's Theory of Personality Development | |
Freud on Personality and Hysteria | |
The Tools of Psychoanalysis | |
The Components of Personality | |
Stages of Development | |
Is Freud's Theory Useful? | |
Summary | |
Moral Development | |
Piaget's Moral Realist and Moral Subjectivist | |
Evaluation of Piaget's Theory | |
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Reasoning | |
Evaluation of Kohlberg's Stage Theory | |
Prosocial Behavior | |
Moral Emotions | |
Summary | |
Further Reading | |
Development of Antisocial Behavior | |
What is Aggression? | |
Are Children Born Good or Bad? | |
Catharsis, or Learning to be Violent | |
Aggressive Behavior Can Be Learned | |
Does Watching Violent TV Make Children Violent? | |
Naturalistic and Controlled Studies of the Link between TV and Aggression | |
Exposure to Violent TV Promotes Aggression | |
Other Influences on Aggression | |
Frustration as a Cause for Aggression | |
Attention Seeking and Reject | |
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