Advances in child development and behavior. v. 34 /

Volume 34 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is divided into eight components that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including social stereotypes and prejudice, phonetic and le...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Elsevier Academic Press, 2006.
Colección:Advances in child development and behavior ; 34
Temas:
Child development.
Child Development
Enfants > D�eveloppement.
Child development
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mapping sound to meaning: Connections between learning about sounds and learning about words. (Jenny R. Saffran & Katharine Graf Estes)
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Overview
  • III. Phonetic specificity in early lexical representations
  • IV. Effects of familiarity with the sounds of words on word learning
  • V. Conclusions
  • References
  • A Developmental Intergroup Theory of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice. (Rebecca S. Bigler & Lynn S. Liben)
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Definitions and forms of Stereotyping and Prejudice
  • III. An Ontogenetic Approach to Stereotyping and Prejudice
  • IV. Core Qualities and Goals of Developmental Intergroup Theory
  • V. Theoretical Foundations of Developmental Intergroup Theory
  • VI. Core Components of Developmental Intergroup Theory
  • VII. Principles of the Formation and Maintenance of Social Stereotypes and Prejudices
  • VIII. Summary and Conclusions
  • References
  • Income Poverty, Poverty Co-Factors, and the Adjustment of Children in Elementary School. (Brian P. Ackerman and Eleanor D. Brown)
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Framing Poverty Research
  • III. Poverty Co-Factors
  • IV. Dynamic Aspects of the Ecology of Disadvantage
  • V. Person-Centered Approaches
  • VI. Summary and Conclusions
  • References
  • I thought she knew that would hurt my feelings:
  • Developing Psychological Knowledge and Moral Thinking. (Cecilia Wainryb and Beverly A. Brehl)
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Moral Judgments about the World as Understood
  • III. Childrens Developing Understandings of Persons: A Thumbnail Sketch
  • IV. Childrens Moral Judgments about the Behaviors of Persons as Understood
  • V. Conclusions and Future Challenges
  • References
  • Home Range and the Development of Childrens Way Finding. (Edward H. Cornell and C. Donald Heth)
  • I. Definition of the topics
  • II. Distance and dispersion of travel
  • III. The ontogeny of way finding
  • IV. Landmark and place recognition
  • V. Memories of routes
  • VI. Bearing knowledge in way finding
  • VII. Strategy development
  • VIII. General discussion
  • References
  • The Development and Neural Bases of Recognizing of Facial Emotion. (Jukka M. Lep�pnen and Charles A. Nelson)
  • I. Behavioral Studies of Facial Expression Recognition
  • II. Neural basis of facial expression recognition
  • III. Developmental Mechanisms
  • IV. Conclusions
  • References
  • Childrens Suggestibility: Characteristics and Mechanisms. (Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck)
  • I. Definitional Issues
  • II. Interviewer Bias: The Central Characteristic of Suggestive Interviews
  • III. Mechanisms Underlying Childrens Suggestibility
  • IV. Summary: Child versus Situational Variables
  • References
  • The Emergence and Basis of Endogenous Attention in Infancy and Early Childhood. (John Colombo and Carol L. Cheatham)
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Four Attentional Functions
  • III. A Model for Endogenous Attention and Some Historical Perspectives
  • IV. Behavioral Development of Endogenous Attention
  • V. Neural Bases of Endogenous Attention
  • VI. The Emergence of Endogenous Attention: Summary and Implications
  • References
  • The Probabilistic Epigenesis of Knowledge. (James A. Dixon and
  • Elizabeth Kelley)
  • I. Knowledge Acquisition: Foundational Issues
  • II. Probabilistic Epigenesis
  • III. Epigenesis of Knowledge
  • IV. Epigenesis of Knowledge and Symbol Grounding
  • V. Epigenesis and Detecting Structure in the Environment
  • VI. Epigenetic Approaches to Language Acquisition
  • VII. Conclusions
  • References.

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