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The Developing Child

Volumes

Book 1977

The Perceptual World of the Child

T. G. R. Bower

Volume 49 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733671
ISBN:: 9780674733664
ISBN:: 9780674733671
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Psychology, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1977

Distress and Comfort

Judy Dunn

Volume 46 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674330573
ISBN:: 9780674330566
ISBN:: 9780674330573
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1979

Early Language

Peter A. de Villiers, Jill G. de Villiers

Volume 43 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674331495
ISBN:: 9780674331488
ISBN:: 9780674331495
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Psychology, other
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1977

Mothering

Rudolph Schaffer

Volume 19 in this series

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Anyone interested in the drama of development or the excitement of the mother-infant relationship will want to own this book. Since Schaffer sees the child not as a psychologically passive "blob" waiting to be molded, he examines the child's own internative patterns and targets difficulties between the child-mother relationship rather than within either one of them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674422186
ISBN:: 9780674422162
ISBN:: 9780674422186
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1980

Children’s Friendships

Zick Rubin

Volume 18 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674422766
ISBN:: 9780674422742
ISBN:: 9780674422766
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1977

Children Drawing

Jacqueline Goodnow

Volume 13 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674492158
ISBN:: 9780674492141
ISBN:: 9780674492158
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2006

Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind

Juan Carlos Gómez

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In this fascinating introduction to primate minds, Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances—and differences—between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but instead as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674037793
ISBN:: 9780674037793
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2005

What We Know about Childcare

Alison Clarke-Stewart, Virginia D. Allhusen

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Quality childcare, the authors show, may be more beneficial to children than staying home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be more unruly than children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and benefit from engaging with other children.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271487
ISBN:: 9780674271487
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2004

The Infant’s World

Philippe Rochat

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In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual understanding in relation to three interconnected domains: the self, objects, and other people.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042810
ISBN:: 9780674042810
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2002

Pathways to Language

From Fetus to Adolescent

Kyra Karmiloff, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

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A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039322
ISBN:: 9780674039322
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Forensic Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book Print Only 2001

Pathways to Language

From Fetus to Adolescent

Kyra KARMILOFF, Annette Karmiloff-Smith

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ISBN:: 9780674004764
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 2001

Children of Immigration

Carola Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

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This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who the immigrant children are and what their future might hold.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044128
ISBN:: 9780674044128
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology of Migration
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1995

Children Solving Problems

Stephanie Thornton

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Thornton surveys research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are—or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning—and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044340
ISBN:: 9780674044340
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press

Book 1993

Daycare

Revised Edition

Alison Clarke-Stewart, Barbara Lloyd

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There are eight million preschoolers whose mothers now work, most of them because of economic necessity. For these mothers the question is not whether to use daycare, but how to choose among the available options in a way that is best for the child. These are just the questions taken up in Daycare, a brief and readable summary of the best information modern “baby science” has to offer about how daycare affects young children and how to tell the difference between daycare that helps and daycare that hurts. On the basis of her own research and a complete review of the most recent daycare studies, Alison Clarke-Stewart concludes that good daycare definitely does not impair the child's development either emotionally or intellectually. Fears that daycare children will fail to develop proper parental attachments and will cling instead to their peers are unfounded; so too are fears that mental growth will be slowed. In fact, there is some evidence that social and intellectual development can be facilitated in good daycare environments. The real question is just what these environments are made of, and here Daycare provides a complete discussion of the necessary ingredients, including a checklist that parents can use to make their own evaluation of any daycare arrangement. This is a book that covers all the practical problems daycare parents must face and suggests ways to solve them that are based not on psychological theory or political conviction but on the facts as we now know them.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271517
ISBN:: 9780674271517
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Psychology, other
Publisher:: Harvard University Press