Developmental psychology : a students handbook / Margaret Harris & George Butterworth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A brief history of developmental psychology. The developmental principle. The evolution of development. The emergence of developmental psychology. Fundamental questions in developmental psychology -- 2. Developmental psychology in the 20th century. Learning or maturation: The rise of opposing schools. Jean Piaget (1896-1980). Lev Semeonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934). John Bowlby (1907-1990) -- 3. Observing and modelling developmental change. The epigenetic landscape. Stage theories of development. The dynamic systems approach. The connectionist approach. Information-processing approaches. Carrying out research in developmental psychology. Methods of data collection -- 4. Development from conception to birth. Stages in prenatal development. Behaviour in the foetus. Evolution and development of the brain. Sitting, standing, and walking. The sensory capacities of the neonate. Childbirth -- 5. Cognitive development in infancy. Piaget's theory of infant cognition. Piaget's account of the development of the object concept. Infants' perception of objects: An alternative to Piaget. Memory in infancy. Reaching and grasping -- 6. Early social development. Recognising oneself. Recognising other people. Smiling and social recognition. Imitating other people. Play. The development of attachment. Responses to emotions. Differences in interaction with boys and girls -- 7. The beginnings to language development. The perception of speech sounds. The development of babbling. Learning to say words. The social context of early language development -- 8. Language development in the preschool years. Combining words. Morphological development. Inside-out theories. Outside-in theories. The role of language input. Experimental studies of early grammatical understanding. The language abilities of chimpanzees. Vocabulary development in the school years -- 9. Cognitive development in the preschool years. Piaget's theory of preoperational reasoning. Criticisms of Piaget's tests of preoperational thinking. Problem solving. Reasoning by analogy. Appearance and reality. Children's drawing -- 10. Social development in the preschool years. The continuing development of self-recognition. The development of pretend play. Fantasy and imagination. Gender differences in play. The development of gender identity. Social cognition and theory of mind. Prosocial behaviour. The formation of friendships -- 11. Cognitive development in middle childhood. Social and biological markers of middle childhood. Piaget's theory of concrete operational reasoning. Criticisms of Piaget's account of concrete operational reasoning. Developmental changes in problem solving -- 12. Learning to read and spell. Orthographic regularity. Theories of learning to read. Learning to read alphabetic scripts. Learning to read non-alphabetic scripts. Predictors of reading success. Learning to spell. Learning to read and write braille. Difficulties with learning to read and spell -- 13. Learning to do mathematics. Early knowledge of number. Learning to count. Adding and subtracting objects. Adding and subtracting numbers. Cross-Cultural differences in mathematical ability -- 14. Social development in the school years. Interactions with other children. Friendships. Bullying. Piagetian and neo-Piagetian accounts of moral reasoning. Alternative accounts of moral development. Emotional development -- 15. Adolescence. Social and biological markers of adolescence. Piaget's theory of formal operational reasoning. Criticisms of Piaget's theory. Culture and context specificity in adult thinking. Moral reasoning. Relationships. Gender differences in adolescent friendships. Conflict and aggression in adolescence.