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Defines ‘mid-life crisis’, explains who is likely to experience it, and considers what life experiences trigger it. Also considers whether the mid-life crisis is really so different from the conficts...
Addresses cognitive changes that occur during adolescence. Citing the work of Piaget, Erikson, and Goffman, David Elkind explores the intellectual, emotional, and social consequences that result from the...
Presents four experimental imitative paradigms in developmental psychology: infant facial imitation, deferred imitation, imitation of intentions, and imitation of goals.
Reviews the physical development of the brain from the earliest stages. Maintains that the shaping of behaviour and temperament begins in the womb and stresses the importance of stimulating learning and...
Aims to help parents and carers prepare children for primary school. Uses principles of structured play to engage children in listening skills, vocabulary for school, organisational and social skills, memory...
Dr David Elkind contrasts the work of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky in the field of cognitive development in early childhood, and uses their research and his own work to look at reasoning, visual perception...
Uses sequences of four-year-old children at play to illustrate the theoretical positions that Lev Vygotsky and other prominent theorists have taken in systematically studying play. Reviews the traditional...
Dr Christopher Green discusses the problem of attention deficit disorder (ADD), which affects learning behaviour and family relationships. Although not fully recognised in the UK, discussion about the...
Introduces the psychology of human development. In six units: investigating development; biological processes; cognitive development; language development; social development; theories of development....
Asks how far gender roles are determined by nature and how much by social and cultural forces. James Sheehan of Stanford University lectures on how the idea of gender has evolved in Europe and America over...
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