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Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook
by Marc H. Bornstein, Michael E. Lamb. 592 pgs.

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Developmental Psychology: An Advanced Textbook

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Preface

1: A History of Systems in Developmental Psychology

2: Methodology

3: Perceptual Development

4: Cognitive Development

5: Current Issues in Language Learning

6: Social and Emotional Development in Infancy

7: Moral Development

8: Sex-Role Development

9: Aggression, Altruism, and Self-Regulation

10: Developmental Psychopathology

11: Applied Developmental Psychology

12: The Life-Span Perspective in Developmental Psychology

13: Development Viewed in Its Cultural Context

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Advances in Developmental Psychology, Vol. 1
by Michael E. Lamb, Ann L. Brown. 248 pgs.

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1 Sex Role and Sex-Related Attributions: Constancy And Change Across the Family Life Cycle

2 Development of Individual Differences in Temperament

3 Social Conflict and Dominance In Children: a Case for A Primate Homology

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5 The Role of Taxonomy In Developmental Psychopathology

6 Two Different Principles Of Conceptual Organization

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Advances in Developmental Psychology, Vol. 2
by Michael E. Lamb, Ann L. Brown. 213 pgs.

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1: Maternal Attachment And Mother-Neonate Bonding: A Critical Review

2: The Development of Human Search Ability

3: Paternal Effects On Reproductive Outcome And Developmental Risk

4: Integrating Context And Cognitive Development

5: Language Change During Language Acquisition

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Advances in Developmental Psychology, Vol. 3
by Michael E. Lamb, Ann L. Brown, Barbara Rogoff. 298 pgs.

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1: The Varieties and Effects of Work During Adolescence

2: Children's Problem Solving

3: Product and Process in Applied Developmental Research: Education and the Children of a Minority

4: Three Faces of Transfer: Implications for Early Competence, Individual Differences, and Instruction

5: Parents' Ideas About Parenting and Development: A Review of Issues and Recent Work

6: Perceptual Development from the Ecological Approach

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Advances in Developmental Psychology, Vol. 4
by Michael E. Lamb, Ann L. Brown, Barbara Rogoff. 356 pgs.

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1: Induction of Pattern in Neural Structure by Experience: Implications for Cognitive Development

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2: Human Developmental Psychoneuroendocrinology: A Review of Research on Neuroendocrine Responses to Challenge and Threat in Infancy and Childhood

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Introduction

3: The Socio-Emotional Bases of Communicative Functioning: Quality of Attachment, Language Development, and Early Maltreatment

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4: Causal Analyses of Multiple Determinants of Parenting: Empirical and Methodological Advances

Conclusion

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5: The Elements of Latent Variable Models: A Cautionary Lecture

Introduction

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6: Fundamental Issues in the Study of Early Temperament: The Denver Twin Temperament Study

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7: Sex Differences in Children's Response to Psychosocial Stress: Toward a Cross-Context Analysis

Summary and Conclusion

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Developmental Psychology: How Nature and Nurture Interact
by Keith Richardson. 249 pgs.

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Developmental Psychology: How Nature and Nurture Interact

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Chapter 1: Introduction: the Traditional View and Its Alternative, a Summary

Chapter 2: Darwinian Dichotomies and Their Dissolution

Chapter 3: Towards the Alternative: Ecological, Dynamic Systems

Chapter 4: Dynamic Systems Theories

Chapter 5: The Ecological Perspective: Gibson's Legacy

Chapter 6: The Creation of Knowledge

Chapter 7: A Sample of the Evidence: Wise Owls, Accurate Ants

Chapter 8: The Origins of Knowledge

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Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology
by John R. Morss. 174 pgs.

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Looking at infancy, childhood and adulthood this book makes the startling claim that 'development' does not exist. John Morss surveys the range of modern alternatives in critical psychology from the early 70s using developmental psychology as his focus.

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Naturally Social

Chapter 3: Persons in Conversation

Chapter 4: The Problem of Development

Chapter 5: Marxism and the Critique of Development

Chapter 6: Psychoanalysis and the Subversion of Development

Chapter 7: Post-Structuralism and the Deconstruction of Development

Chapter 8: Writing Against Development

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Concepts and Theories of Human Development
by Richard M. Lerner. 522 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

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1: Human Development: Facts or Theory?

2: Philosophical Models of Development

3: The Nature-Nurture Controversy: Implications of the Question, How?

4: The Nature-Nurture Controversy the Sample Case of Intelligence

5: The Nature-Nurture Controversy: Dynamic Interactional Perspectives

6: The Continuity Discontinuity Issue

7: Theories of Development: an Overview

8: Stage Theories of Development

9: The Differential Approach

10: The Ipsative Approach

11: Theoretical- and Empirical Behaviorism Approaches

12: Implications for Research

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Development, Genetics, and Psychology
by Robert Plomin. 374 pgs.

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I Foundations of Developmental Behavioral Genetics

1: Introduction

2: Developmental Molecular Genetics

3: Genetic Change and Developmental Behavioral Genetics

Ii Developmental Behavioral Genetics and the Environment

4: Environmental Influences That Affect Development Are Not Shared by Members of a Family

5: Genotype-Environment Interaction

6: Genotype-Environment Correlation

7: Genes Affect Measures of the Environment

8: Genes Mediate Relationships Between Environment and Development

Iii Developmental Behavioral Genetics Throughout the Life Span

9: Infancy

10: Childhood

11: Adolescence

12: Adulthood

13: Senescence

14: Life-Span Developmental Behavioral Genetics

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Development of Person-Context Relations
by Thomas A. Kendermann, Jaan Valsiner. 262 pgs.

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INTRODUCTION Individual Development, Changing Contexts, and the Co-Construction of Person-Context Relations in Human Development

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PART ONE TOWARD A FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF DEVELOPING PERSON--CONTEXT RELATIONS: PRAGMATIC, THEORETICAL, AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

Chapter One Developing Individuals Within Changing Contexts: Implications of Developmental Contextualism for Human Development Research, Policy, and Programs

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

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Chapter Two Accounting for Person-Context Relations and Their Development

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Chapter Three: Processes of Development, and Search for Their Logic: An Introduction to Herbst's Co-Genetic Logic

Chapter Four: What Happens When We Make a Distinction: An Elementary Introduction to Co-Genetic Logic

PART TWO EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DEVELOPING PERSON--CONTEXT RELATIONS

Understanding the Economic Framework: Children's and Adolescents' Conceptions of Economic Inequality

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Chapter Six Person--Context Relations as Developmental Conditions for Empathy and Prosocial Action: a Cross-Cultural Analysis

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Chapter Seven Life Events' Spacing and Order in Individual Development

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Adolescents' Adaptation to Structural Changes in Family Relationships with Parental Divorce: a Combinatorial Model

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CHAPTER NINE: Distinguishing "Buddies" From "Bystanders": The Study of Children's Development Within Natural Peer Contexts

EPILOGUE Directions for the Study of Developing Person-Context Relations

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Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind
by Aaro Toomela. 246 pgs.

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Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human Mind

Part I: Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology

1: Would Humans without Language Be Apes?

2 Continuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors Kathleen R Gibson

3: Assumptions and Knowledge Construction

Part II: Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain

4: Culture in Our Brains

5: Art and Brain Evolution

Part III: Cultural Perspective on Human Development

6: Origins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behavior

7: Semiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises

Part IV: The Role of Culture in Child Development

8: Making Sense in a World of Symbols

9: Development of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind

10: Constructing Knowledge beyond the Senses

Afterword

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The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self
by Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, Bertram J. Cohler. 470 pgs.

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Chapter 1 Introduction

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Chapter 2 the Human Environment of Infancy

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Chapter 3 Toddlerhood: the Self and Morality

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Chapter 4 the Toddler Years: Language, Play, Sex, and Anality

Chapter 5 Early Childhood

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Chapter 6 Moving into the Larger World: Middle Childhood

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Chapter 7 Adolescence and Youth

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Chapter 8 Youth and Young Adulthood: Generation, Education, and the Family

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Chapter 9 Stable Adulthood: Work

Chapter 10 Courtship, Engagement, Relationship, and Marriage

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Chapter 11 Midlife

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Chapter 13 Conclusion

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Exploring Developmental Theories: Toward a Structural/Behavioral Model of Development ("Theoretical Issues in the History of Developmental Psychology" beigns on p. 3)
by Frances Degen Horowitz. 216 pgs.

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2: Organismic Theory: Stage, Structure, and System

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3: Behaviorism: Processes of Acquisition and Organization of Mechanisms

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4: Environment and Development

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5: Synthesis: A Structural/Behavioral Model of Development

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6: Using the Model for Developmental Research

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Piaget, Vygotsky and beyond: Future Issues for Developmental Psychology and Education
by Leslie Smith, Julie Dockrell, Peter Tomlinson. 270 pgs.

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Celebrating the 1996 centenary of the births of the two most seminal figures in education and developmental psychology, this collection looks at the implications of the research in their footsteps and asks which body of findings is most important.

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The Limitations of Concepts in Developmental Psychology, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
by Jerome Kagan. 8 pgs.

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Genetics and Developmental Psychology, in Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
by Robert Plomin. 12 pgs.

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