Description 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 lexical learning, poverty, the development of moral thinking, and others. Each component provides in depth
discussions of various developmental psychology specializations. This volume serves as an invaluable resource for psychology researchers
and advanced psychology students.
Audience
developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students
Contents 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. Children?s Developing Understandings of Persons: A Thumbnail Sketch.
IV. Children?s Moral Judgments about the Behaviors of Persons as Understood.
V. Conclusions and Future Challenges.
References.
Home Range and the Development of Children?s 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. Leppanen and Charles A. Nelson).
I.
Behavioral Studies of Facial Expression Recognition.
II. Neural basis of facial expression recognition.
III. Developmental
Mechanisms.
IV. Conclusions.
References.
Children?s 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 Children?s 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
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