Research Manual in Child Development
Psychology Press (Verlag)
978-0-8058-4041-4 (ISBN)
Special features of this second edition:
*The introductory text portion details research considerations, including an introduction to psychological research, sections on developmental research, children as subjects, and general experimental research procedures.
*The popular Infant Observation project has the student visit homes with babies for a semester and provides practice in observational data collection, reliability assessment, and report writing.
*The cognitive development section includes two new subfields: Theory of Mind and Language--Children's Interpretation of the Word Big, in addition to classic studies of Piaget's spatial perspective-taking and attention and memory. The final chapter describes a suggested neuropsychological project.
*The socialized child section includes a new study on sibling relationships as seen by the older or younger sibling, in addition to the earlier projects on self-esteem, sex identity, and cooperation-competition. The final section describes a suggested cross-cultural interview project.
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Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction--Research Methods. A Primer of Scientific Research. R. Wozniak, Section 1: An Introduction to Scientific Research. Section 2: Developmental Research. Section 3: Children as Subjects. Part II: Observational Studies. Infant Observation. Observation Projects. Part III: Experimental Studies. General Experimental Research Procedures. Psychomotor and Perceptual Behavior--A Classic Experiment. K. Stanovich, Experiment 1: Age and Sex Differences in Two Reaction-Time Tasks. Cognitive Development. S. Miller, Piagetian Research. Experiment 2: Spatial Perspective Taking: The Three Mountains Task. Theory of Mind: False Belief. Experiment 3: False Belief in Children's Theory of Mind. Attention and Memory. K. Stanovich, Experiment 4: Age and Sex Differences in Interference Proneness. Experiment 5: Semantic Processing in a Picture-Word Interference Task. Experiment 6: The Influence of Category Blocked and Random Presentation in Free Recall and Clustering. S.A. Gelman, Cognitive Development and Language. Experiment 7: Children's Interpretation of the Word Big. The Socialized Child. Self-Concept. Experiment 8: Age and Sex Differences in Self-Esteem. Sex Identity. Experiment 9: Differential Recall of Sex-Typed Material. Experiment 10: Preferences for Sex-Typed Material. Cooperation-Competition. Experiment 11: Cooperation and Competition as a Function of Sex of Dyads. Sibling Relationships. S.A. Graham-Bermann, Assessing Four Domains of the Childhood Sibling Relationship. Experiment 12: Sibling Relationships and Sibling Status: Older or Younger. A Final Project: Suggestions. Part IV: Appendices: Notes for the Instructor. List of Experiments.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2003 |
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Verlagsort | Philadelphia |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 210 x 280 mm |
Gewicht | 890 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
ISBN-10 | 0-8058-4041-9 / 0805840419 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8058-4041-4 / 9780805840414 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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