This book will introduce you to studies in developmental psychology that changed the way we think about the discipline today.
Each chapter provides details of the original work and explains their theoretical and empirical impact, before discussing the ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the studies were first conducted.
This edition looks at 16 different studies including topics such as the visual cliff, object permanence, and attachment as well as researchers such as Piaget, Vygotsky, and Ainsworth.
Chapter 1: Attachment and Early Social Deprivation - Roger Kobak
Chapter 2: Revisiting Ainsworth's Patterns of Infant-Mother Attachment - Ashley M. Groh
Chapter 3: Conditioned Emotional Responses - Thomas H Ollendick and Peter Muris
Chapter 4: Infants on the Edge: Beyond the Visual Cliff - Karen E Adolph, Brianna E Kaplan and Kari S. Kretch
Chapter 5: Beyond Piaget - David Klahr
Chapter 6: Vygotsky on Learning and Development - Mary Gauvain
Chapter 7: Imititation in Infancy - Alan M Slater
Chapter 8: Object Permanence in Infancy - Denis Mareschal and Jordy Kaufman
Chapter 9: Children's Eyewitness Memory and Suggestibility - Kelly McWilliams, Sue D. Hobbs, Daniel Bederian-Gardner, Sarah Bakanosky, and Gail S. Goodman
Chapter 10: How Much Can We Boost IQ? - Wendy Johnson
Chapter 11: Reading and Spelling - Usha Goswami
Chapter 12: Theory of Mind and Autism - Coralie Chevallier
Chapter 13: Moral Development - Gail D Heyman and Kang Lee
Chapter 14: Aggression - Jennifer E Lansford
Chapter 15: Language and Development - Richard N Aslin
Chapter 16: Resilience in Children - Ann S Masten
