Advances in child development and behavior. Volume 34 / edited by Robert V. Kail.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kail, Robert V.

Series:

Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in child development and behavior ; 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child psychology.

Child development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Academic Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 34 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is divided into eight components that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including social stereotypes and prejudice, phonetic and lexical learning, poverty, the development of moral thinking, and others. Each component 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

Contents:

Front cover; ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR; Copyright page; Table of contents; Contributors; Preface; CHAPTER 1. MAPPING SOUND TO MEANING: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LEARNING ABOUT SOUNDS AND LEARNING ABOUT WORDS; I. Introduction; II. Overview; III. Phonetic Specificity in Early Lexical Representations; IV. Effects of Familiarity with the Sounds of Words on Word Learning; V. Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. A DEVELOPMENTAL INTERGROUP THEORY OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES AND PREJUDICE; I. Introduction; II. Definitions and Forms of Stereotyping and Prejudice

III. An Ontogenetic Approach to Stereotyping and PrejudiceIV. Core Qualities and Goals of Developmental Intergroup Theory; V. Theoretical Foundations of Developmental Intergroup Theory; VI. Core Components of Developmental Intergroup Theory; VII. Principles of the Formation and Maintenance of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice; VIII. Summary and Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. INCOME POVERTY, POVERTY CO-FACTORS, AND THE ADJUSTMENT OF CHILDREN IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; I. Introduction; II. Framing Poverty Research; III. Poverty Co-factors; IV. Dynamic Aspects of the Ecology of Disadvantage

V. Person-Centered ApproachesVI. Summary and Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. I THOUGHT SHE KNEW THAT WOULD HURT MY FEELINGS: DEVELOPING PSYCHOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL THINKING; I. Introduction; II. Moral Judgments About the World as Understood; III. Children's Developing Understandings of Persons: A Thumbnail Sketch; IV. Children's Moral Judgments about the Behaviors of Persons as Understood; V. Conclusions and Future Challenges; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. HOME RANGE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN'S WAY FINDING; I. Definition of the Topics; II. Distance and Dispersion of Travel

III. The Ontogeny of Way FindingIV. Landmark and Place Recognition; V. Memories of Routes; VI. Bearing Knowledge in Way Finding; VII. Strategy Development; VIII. General Discussion; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. THE DEVELOPMENT AND NEURAL BASES OF FACIAL EMOTION RECOGNITION; I. Behavioral Studies of Facial Expression Recognition; II. Neural Basis of Facial Expression Recognition; III. Developmental Mechanism; IV. Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. CHILDREN'S SUGGESTIBILITY: CHARACTERISTICS AND MECHANISMS; I. Definitional Issues

II. Interviewer Bias: The Central Characteristic of Suggestive InterviewsIII. Mechanisms Underlying Children's Suggestibility; IV. Summary: Child vs. Situational Variables; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. THE EMERGENCE AND BASIS OF ENDOGENOUS ATTENTION IN INFANCY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD; I. Introduction; II. Four Attentional Functions; III. A Model for Endogenous Attention and Some Historical Perspectives; IV. Behavioral Development of Endogenous Attention; V. Neural Bases of Endogenous Attention; VI. The Emergence of Endogenous Attention: Summary and Implications; REFERENCES

CHAPTER 9. THE PROBABILISTIC EPIGENESIS OF KNOWLEDGE

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-75137-1

9786610751372

0-08-046894-2

OCLC:

85776833