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Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction [#410]
Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction [#410]
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  • Looks at cutting-edge research about child psychology and development
  • Incorporates information from various areas of psychology to demonstrate how children develop
  • Considers the influence of friendships, families, and the imagination
  • Explores how children learn in different ways, in relation to genetics and the workings of the brain
  • Explains how children develop self-awareness and an understanding of the physical, biological, and social worlds

   
This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding. Exploring childhood learning, ranging from aspects of language and thinking to cognitive reasoning, Goswami looks at how babies and toddlers develop an understanding of the physical, biological, and social worlds, and develop complex abilities like language and morality. 
  
Demonstrating how learning is shaped by the environments surrounding the child; at home, school, with peers, and in wider society, Goswami emphasizes the importance of childhood friendships and siblings for psychological development. Introducing the key theories in child psychology, Goswami explains why children develop as they do and how society can further optimize their development through the adolescent years. 

Index: 

1: Babies and what they know
2: Learning about the outside world
3: Learning language
4: Friendships, famillies, pretend play and the imagination
5: Going to school
6: The learning brain
7: Theories and neurobiology of development
Further reading
Index

About the author: 

Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge
 
Usha Goswami is currently Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge. She has received a number of career awards, including the British Psychology Society's Spearman Medal (1992) and President's Award (2011); the Aspen Brain Forum Senior Investigator Prize in Neuroeducation, New York Academy of Sciences; and the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize for dyslexia research from Sweden. Goswami has written and edited a number of textbooks on child psychology, and has also written books on reading development and reasoning by analogy. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Product details

ISBN : 9780199646593

Author: 
Usha Claire Goswami
Pages
152 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
111 x 174 mm
Pub date
Nov 2014
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction [#410]

Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction [#410]

Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction [#410]