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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Kail, Robert V.

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Table of contents
  • Contentsv
  • Contributorsix
  • Prefacexi
  • Chapter 1. Beyond Point And Shoot: Children’s Developing Understanding of Photographs as Spatial a1
  • I. A Photographic Vision1
  • II. Beneath the Photographic Surface3
  • III. Empirical Investigations of Photographic Development12
  • IV. The Larger Developmental Picture33
  • References39
  • Chapter 2. Probing the Adaptive Significance of Children’s Behavior and Relationships in the Schoo43
  • I. Introduction44
  • II. Primary Premises and Findings from Research Guided by ‘‘Main Effects’’ Models47
  • III. Primary Premises and Findings from Research Guided by ‘‘Child by Environment’’ Models73
  • IV. Summary and Conclusions84
  • References95
  • Chapter 3. The Role of Letter Names in the Acquisition of Literacy105
  • I. Introduction105
  • II. Letter Names in English and Other Alphabetic Writing Systems108
  • III. Children’s Learning of Letter Names113
  • IV. Children’s Learning of Letter Sounds119
  • V. Role of Letter Names in Learning to Read Words123
  • VI. Role of Letter Names in Learning to Spell Words129
  • VII. Conclusions132
  • References134
  • Chapter 4. Early Understandings of Emotion, Morality, and Self: Developing a Working Model137
  • I. Internal Working Models and Relationships139
  • II. Internal Working Models and Cognitive Growth141
  • III. Developing a Working Model150
  • IV. Conclusion: The Impact of Relationships on Emotion, Morality„and the Self165
  • References168
  • Chapter 5. Working Memory in Infancy173
  • I. Introduction173
  • II. Toward a Definition of WM in Infants175
  • III. Research on WM in Infants182
  • IV. Frontiers of Research on WM in Infants202
  • References217
  • Chapter 6. The Development of a Differentiated Sense of the Past and the Future229
  • I. The Past and Future in Children’s and Parents’ Language232
  • II. Differentiation of the Past and of the Future235
  • III. Differentiation Between the Past and the Future253
  • IV. Conclusions and Directions for Future Research261
  • References266
  • Chapter 7. The Development of Cognitive Flexibility and Language Abilities271
  • I. What is Flexible Cognition?273
  • II. Developing Toward ƒ ? Adults Flexible Cognitive Processing of Meanings and Messages279
  • III. Toward a Model of Flexible Representation in Language Processing283
  • IV. Children’s Flexible Thinking About Meanings and Messages285
  • V. Questions and Conclusions316
  • References320
  • Chapter 8. A Bio-Social-Cognitive Approach to Understanding and Promoting The Outcomes of Children w329
  • I. Introduction329
  • II. Theoretical Models Employed to Understand the Experiences of Children with Medical and Physical330
  • III. Optimizing the Outcomes of Children with Medical and Physical Disorders349
  • IV. Integration355
  • References356
  • Chapter 9. Expanding Our View of Context: The Bio-ecological Environment and Development363
  • I. Starting with the Psychosocial Environment365
  • II. Going Beyond the Psychosocial: The Bio-ecological Environment368
  • III. The Bio-ecological Environment and Children’s Development371
  • IV. Bringing it All Together: A Converging Structural and Conceptual Framework388
  • V. Conclusions394
  • References395
  • Chapter 10. Pathways to Early Literacy: The Complex Interplay of Child, Family, and Sociocultural Fa411
  • I. Introduction412
  • II. Child Factors and Early Literacy Development416
  • III. Parenting and Early Literacy Development420
  • IV. Sociocultural Factors and Early Literacy Development426
  • V. Schooling Influences and Children’s Early Literacy Development430
  • VI. Dynamic Relations Between Child, Family, & Sociocultural Factors, Schooling Influences and Early431
  • VII. Conclusion439
  • References440
  • Author Index449
  • Subject Index473
  • Contents of Previous Volumes489
Book details
  • Vendor Elsevier S & T
  • SKU 9780120097319
  • ISBN-13 9780080493299
  • Author Kail, Robert V.
  • Category Psychology
  • Subject Physiological Psychology

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Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 31 discusses chidren's understanding of photographs as spatial and expressive representations, school relationships and their influence on behavior, literacy and the role of letter names, emotion, morality, and self, working memory in infancy, differentiated sense of the past and the future, cognitive flexibility and language abilities, understanding children with medical and physical disorders, bio-ecological environment and development, and early literacy.