Advances in Child Development and Behavior

✍ Scribed by Robert V. Kail (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 516
• Series: Advances in Child Development and Behavior 36
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Volume 36 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ten chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including King Solomon's Take on Word Learning, Orthographic Learning, Attachment and Affect Regulation, Function, Family Dynamics, Rational Thought, Childhood Aggression, Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Infancy, Children's Thinking, and Remote Transfer in Children, and much more. Each chapter provides in depth discussions of various developmental psychology specializations. This volume serves as an invaluable resource for psychology researchers and advanced psychology students. Goes in depth to address eight different developmental and educational psychology topicsA necessary resource for both psychology researchers and students

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Page i

Contributors to This Volume
Page ii

Advances in Child Development and Behavior
Page iii

Copyright
Page iv

Contents
Pages v-vii

Contributors
Pages ix-x

Preface
Page xi
Robert V. Kail

King Solomon's Take on Word Learning: An Integrative Account from the Radical Middle
Pages 1-29
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Orthographic Learning, Phonological Recoding, and Self-Teaching
Pages 31-82
David L. Share

Developmental Perspectives on Links Between Attachment and Affect Regulation Over the Lifespan
Pages 83-134
Lisa M. Diamond, Christopher P. Fagundes

Function Revisited: How Infants Construe Functional Features in their Representation of Objects
Pages 135-185
Lisa M. Oakes, Kelly L. Madole

Transactional Family Dynamics: A New Framework for Conceptualizing Family Influence Processes
Pages 187-250
Alice C. Schermerhorn, E. Mark Cummings

The Development of Rational Thought: A Taxonomy of Heuristics and Biases
Pages 251-285
Keith E. Stanovich, Maggie E. Toplak, Richard F. West

Lessons Learned: Recent Advances in Understanding and Preventing Childhood Aggression
Pages 287-330
Nancy G. Guerra, Melinda S. Leidy

The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Infancy: Illuminating the Early Development of Social Brain Functions
Pages 331-372
Mark H. Johnson, Tobias Grossmann, Teresa Farroni

Children's Thinking is not Just about What is in the Head: Understanding the Organism and Environment as a Unified System
Pages 373-417
Jodie M. Plumert

Remote Transfer of Scientific-Reasoning and Problem-Solving Strategies in Children
Pages 419-470
Zhe Chen, David Klahr

Author Index
Pages 471-477

Subject Index
Pages 479-492

Contents of Previous Volumes
Pages 493-503