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Developmental psychologyDevelopmental Psychology is the scientific study of change across the life span. This field examines change in a broad range of topics including: motor skills, problem solving abilities, conceptual understanding, acquisition of language, moral understanding, and identity formation. Questions addressed by developmental psychologists include the following. Are children qualitatively different from adults or do they simply lack the experience that adults draw upon? Does development occur through the gradual accumulation of knowledge or through shifts from one stage of thinking to another? Are children born with innate knowledge or do they figure things out through experience? Is development driven by the social context or by something inside each child? Many theoretical perspectives attempt to explain development, among the more common are: Jean Piaget’s Stage Theory, Lev Vygotsky’s Social Contextualism, and the Information Processing framework. Developmental Psychology informs several applied fields, including: Education, School Psychology, Child Psychopathology, and Developmental Forensics. Developmental Psychology complements several other basic research fields in Psychology including Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Comparative Psychology. External links
This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth A Mind at a Time by Mel Levine What's Going on in There? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life by Lise Eliot Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Ph.D. Michael Thompson Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Tony Attwood The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head by Carla Hannaford The Developing Person Through the Life Span by Kathleen Stassen Berger Games People Play : The basic handbook of transactional analysis. by M.D. Eric Berne The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children by Robert Shaw The Optimistic Child : Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression & Build Lifelong Resistance by Martin E. Seligman Maverick Mind: A Mother's Story of Solving the Mystery of Her Unreachable, Unteachable, Silent Son by Cheri L. Florance Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers by Linda Perlstein Recent Developmental_psychology related patents From USPTO: 6173260: System and method for automatic classification of speech based upon affective content 6112749: Flavor dot odorizer and method 4823808: Method for control of obesity, overweight and eating disorders |