Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 71, continues the tradition of this longstanding resource as an essential reference for researchers, scholars, and students in developmental psychology and related disciplines. This new volume presents timely updates and fresh perspectives on key aspects of cognitive development, with particular emphasis on perceptual, memory, and reasoning processes across childhood. Chapters in this release examine topic such as From blinking responses to BabyBCI: The development of looming motion perception in infants, Strategic memory use in children and adults, and Children's understanding of event possibility.
Contributions from an international panel of authors ensure that this volume reflects the current state of knowledge and emerging directions in the field of child development and behavior.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Series Page - p. iii 6. Copyright - p. iv 7. Contributors - p. ix 8. Preface - p. xi 9. Chapter One: Children’s willingness to engage cognitive control - p. 1 10. Chapter Two: The emotional foundations of human prosociality - p. 33 11. Chapter Three: The development of looming motion perception in infants: From blinking responses to BabyBCI - p. 63 12. Chapter Four: What is working memory for? An ethological approach to working memory in children and adults - p. 85 13. Chapter Five: Preterm children’s early language development: Language-specific and domain-general child-related precursors - p. 121 14. Chapter Six: Kidiolects: How children perceive child speech - p. 149 15. Chapter Seven: Denying the possible: Why children judge the improbable impossible - p. 175 16. Chapter Eight: A developmental perspective on educational opportunities - p. 207 17. Chapter Nine: Growing up in an age of economic inequality: A social-cognitive developmental framework - p. 243
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 71, continues the tradition of this longstanding resource as an essential reference for researchers, scholars, and students in developmental psychology and related disciplines. This new volume presents timely updates and fresh perspectives on key aspects of cognitive development, with particular emphasis on perceptual, memory, and reasoning processes across childhood. Chapters in this release examine topic such as From blinking responses to BabyBCI: The development of looming motion perception in infants, Strategic memory use in children and adults, and Children's understanding of event possibility.
Contributions from an international panel of authors ensure that this volume reflects the current state of knowledge and emerging directions in the field of child development and behavior.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Series Page - p. iii 6. Copyright - p. iv 7. Contributors - p. ix 8. Preface - p. xi 9. Chapter One: Children’s willingness to engage cognitive control - p. 1 10. Chapter Two: The emotional foundations of human prosociality - p. 33 11. Chapter Three: The development of looming motion perception in infants: From blinking responses to BabyBCI - p. 63 12. Chapter Four: What is working memory for? An ethological approach to working memory in children and adults - p. 85 13. Chapter Five: Preterm children’s early language development: Language-specific and domain-general child-related precursors - p. 121 14. Chapter Six: Kidiolects: How children perceive child speech - p. 149 15. Chapter Seven: Denying the possible: Why children judge the improbable impossible - p. 175 16. Chapter Eight: A developmental perspective on educational opportunities - p. 207 17. Chapter Nine: Growing up in an age of economic inequality: A social-cognitive developmental framework - p. 243