Meadows, Sarah,

Understanding child development : psychological perspectives and applications / Sarah Meadows. - Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2018. - x, 342 pages : colored illustrations, pictures, 24 cm.

Includes key terms, bibliography, index .

Introducing the study of child development -- Biological bases of child development: evolution and genes -- Biological bases of child development: brain development -- Big Developmental theories: piaget, information-processing, vygotsky -- The development of cognitive skills -- Language development -- Cognition and education -- Personality, emotion regulation and an introduction to development psychopathology -- Social relationships and the family -- Peers and the child as social person -- Play


English

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Child development. --Psychology.

155.4 / M4823