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