Understanding Developmental Psychology (Paperback, 2 ed)

Studying Human Development.- PART I: The Beginning of Life.- Bodies and Brains.- Infant Minds: Perception, Inference and Understanding in the First 18 Months.- Growing Emotions: Social and Personal Development in the First 18 Months.- PART II: Cognitive Development from Infancy to Adulthood.- Language.- Reasoning and Conceptual Understanding.- Memory, Problem Solving and Mechanisms of Cognitive Development.- Individual Differences in Cognition.- PART III: Social and Emotional Development from Infancy to Adulthood.- Understanding Other People.- Personality and Identity.- Social Relationships.- Moral Development: Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour.- PART IV: Toward a new view of development.- Some Final Comments.