Exploring developmental psychology : understanding theory and methods / Margaret Harris.
Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2008Description: xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412903343
- 9781412903349
- 1412903351
- 9781412903356
- 155 22
- BF721 .H263 2008
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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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