Advances in Child Development and Behavior [Hardcover]

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 52, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology. Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, with this volume serving as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

• Contains chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area of child development and behavior
• Presents a wide array of topics that are discussed in detail

1. How Does Experience Shape Early Development? Considering the Role of Top-Down Mechanisms 2. Applications of Dynamic Systems Theory to Cognition and Development: New Frontiers 3. Mental Objects in Working Memory: Development of Basic Capacity or of Cognitive Completion? 4. Why Neighborhoods (and How We Study Them) Matter for Adolescent Development 5. How Children Learn to Navigate the Symbolic World of Pictures: The Importance of the Artist's Mind and Differentiating Picture Modalities 6. Perspectives on Perspective Taking: How Children Think About the Minds of Others 7. The Development of Tactile Perception 8. The Development of Body Image and Weight Bias in Childhood

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, with this volume serving as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students

Janette B. Benson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. She served for five years as the Director of the University-wide Office of Academic Assessment and co-chaired the successful University reaccreditation. Most recently she served as the Associate Dean of the Morgridge College of Education (2014-2917). Dr. Benson's expertise is in cognitive and sensorimotor development in infancy and early childhood, and her research has been ló+