Advances in Child Development and Behavior: Volume 37

Volume 37 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 8 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including the role of dyadic communication in infant social-cognitive development; space, number and the atypically developing brain; development from a behavioral genetics perspective; nonhuman primate studies of individual differences in pathways of lifespan development; the development of autobiographical memory: origins and consequences; the maturation of cognitive control and the adolescent brain; the developmental origin of na ve psychology; and children's reasoning about traits. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123744709
• ISBN13: 9780123744708
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"