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Exploring developmental psychology : understanding theory and methods / Margaret Harris.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008Description: xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412903343
  • 9781412903349
  • 1412903351
  • 9781412903356
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155 22
LOC classification:
  • BF721 .H263 2008
Contents:
1. The Nature of Development -- Transformational and variational change -- A developmental systems perspective -- The epigenetic landscape and beyond -- Are there stages in development? -- Linear and non-linear change -- Information processing approaches -- Training studies -- Variation across tasks -- Investigating developmental change -- 2. Exploring Development -- Task simplification -- Reliability and validity -- Longitudinal designs and individual differences -- The microgenetic method -- Ethical issues in developmental psychology research -- Evaluating research studies -- 3. Observational Methods and Questionnaires -- Observing behaviour -- Field observation -- Observation in a controlled environment -- Longitudinal observation in a controlled environment -- Questionnaires -- 4. Experimental Research with Infants and Toddlers -- The habituation/dishabituation paradigm -- Intermodal preferential looking -- Visual fixations to targets -- 5. Experimental Studies of Older Children -- Cross sectional studies -- 6. Exploring Atypical Development.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 155 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A374628B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 155 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A374629B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-336) and index.

1. The Nature of Development -- Transformational and variational change -- A developmental systems perspective -- The epigenetic landscape and beyond -- Are there stages in development? -- Linear and non-linear change -- Information processing approaches -- Training studies -- Variation across tasks -- Investigating developmental change -- 2. Exploring Development -- Task simplification -- Reliability and validity -- Longitudinal designs and individual differences -- The microgenetic method -- Ethical issues in developmental psychology research -- Evaluating research studies -- 3. Observational Methods and Questionnaires -- Observing behaviour -- Field observation -- Observation in a controlled environment -- Longitudinal observation in a controlled environment -- Questionnaires -- 4. Experimental Research with Infants and Toddlers -- The habituation/dishabituation paradigm -- Intermodal preferential looking -- Visual fixations to targets -- 5. Experimental Studies of Older Children -- Cross sectional studies -- 6. Exploring Atypical Development.

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