How Children Develop by Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Judy S. DeLoache; Elizabeth Gershoff - Sixth Edition, 2020 from Macmillan Student Store

How Children Develop

Sixth  Edition©2020 Robert S. Siegler; Jenny Saffran; Nancy Eisenberg; Judy S. DeLoache; Elizabeth Gershoff

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Well organized and easy to understand. Now with a whole new interactive experience.

How Children Develop has established itself as the most up-to-date resource on child development. The authors introduce you to core concepts and impactful discoveries with an unparalleled integration of theory, cultural research, and applications. Organized around seven enduring themes, this text is presented in a style that is authoritative yet immediately understandable and relevant to you. The pages are full of pictures that illustrate and enliven the concepts, and tables that summarize key points. Critical Thinking prompts throughout the chapter and self-assessment quizzes at the end ensure your understanding of the material. It is also more interactive than ever before, with richer integration between the book and its interactive study features in LaunchPad.

Table of Contents

1.... An Introduction to Child Development

2.... Prenatal Development and the Newborn Period

3.... Biology and Behavior

4.... Theories of Cognitive Development

5.... Perception, Action, and Learning in Infancy

6.... Development of Language and Symbol Use

7.... Conceptual Development

8.... Intelligence and Academic Achievement

9.... Theories of Social Development

10.... Emotional Development

11.... Attachment to Others and Development of Self

12.... The Family

13.... Peer Relationships

14.... Moral Development

15.... Gender Development

16.... Conclusions

Robert S. Siegler

Robert Siegler is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of the cognitive development textbook Children’s Thinking and has written or edited several additional books on child development. His books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Greek, Hebrew, and Portuguese. In the past few years, he has presented keynote addresses at the conventions of the Cognitive Development Society, the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, the Japanese Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Conference on Human Development. He also has served as Associate Editor of the journal Developmental Psychology, co-edited the cognitive development volume of the 2006 Handbook of Child Psychology, and served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Siegler received the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in 2005, was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2010, was named Director of the Siegler Center for Innovative Learning at Beijing Normal University in 2012, and was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2016.

Jenny Saffran

Jenny R. Saffran is the College of Letters & Science Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is an investigator at the Waisman Center. Her research is focused on learning in infancy and early childhood, with a particular emphasis on language. Dr. Saffran currently holds a MERIT award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching, including the Boyd McCandless Award from the American Psychological Association for early career contributions to developmental psychology and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation. In 2015, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nancy Eisenberg

Nancy Eisenberg is Regents’ Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University. Her research interests include social, emotional, and moral development, as well as so-cialization influences, especially in the areas of self-regulation and adjustment. She has published numerous empirical studies, as well as books and chapters on these topics. She has also been editor of Psychological Bulletin and the Handbook of Child Psychology and was the founding editor of the Society for Research in Child Development journal Child Development Perspectives. Dr. Eisenberg has been a recipient of Research Scientist Development Awards and a Research Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health (NICHD and NIMH). She has served as President of the Western Psychological Association and of Division 7 of the American Psychological Association and is president-elect of the Association for Psychological Science. She is the 2007 recipient of the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for a Career Contribution to General Psychology, Division 1, American Psychological Association; the 2008 recipient of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award; the 2009 re-cipient of the G. Stanley Hall Award for Distinguished Contribution to Developmental Psychology, Division 7, American Psychological Association; and the 2011 William James Fellow Award for Career Contributions in the Basic Science of Psychology from the Association for Psychological Science.

Judy S. DeLoache

Judy DeLoache is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. She has published extensively on aspects of cognitive development in infants and young children. Dr. DeLoache has served as President of  the Developmental Division of the American Psychological Association, as  President of the Cognitive Development Society, and as a member of the executive board of the International Society for the Study of Infancy. She has presented major invited addresses at professional meetings, including the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Research in Child Development. Dr. DeLoache is the holder of a Scientific MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health, and her research is also funded by the National Science Foundation. She has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California, and at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.  In 2013, she received the Distinguished Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and the William James Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research from the Association for Psychological Science.

Elizabeth Gershoff