How has it evolved historically? What are its current challenges? The chapters in this collection present the view that research, history and policy are essential and interlocking components of a mature developmental psychology.

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Students who read this text will get a clear sense of the range and excitement of the field." —Paul Harris, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education An Introduction to Developmental Psychology, Third ...

These two perspectives, which form the first sections of the book, complement one another. The third section of the book brings together thoughts on the South African context and the impact it has on development.

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This book will introduce you to studies in developmental psychology that changed the way we think about the discipline today.

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Applied Developmental Psychology has now become a discipline in its own right, with a society, journals and postgraduate courses specifically devoted to it. Much of this is in the USA but is to be found in other countries too.

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of what is now known about psychological development, from birth to biological maturity, and it highlights how cultural, social, cognitive, neural, and molecular processes work together to yield ...

Originally published in 1983, the purpose of this book was to discuss the relations between philosophy and developmental psychology, as those relations existed over the course of the history of the discipline and as they existed at that ...