Advances in Child Development and Behavior / Edition 1

by Hayne W. Reese

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780120097265
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/09/1996
Series:	Advances in Child Development and Behavior , #26
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Reese, Hayne W. (West Virginia Univ)

The contributors represent the specialties of psychology, experimental psychology, and educational psychology. Most are from academic medical centers in the U.S., Canada, England, and Germany. Institutions represented include SUNY at Buffalo, Univ of Cambridge, and Case Western Reserve Univ.

Table of Contents

S.E. Trehub, L.J. Trainor and A.M. Unyk, Music and Speech Processing in the First Year of Life.
J. Worobey, Effects of Feeding Method on Infant Temperament.
L.S. Siegel, The Development of Reading.
J.P. Rack, C. Hulme and M.J. Snowling, Learning to Read: A Theoretical Synthesis.
K.E. Stanovich, Does Reading Make You Smarter? Literacy and the Development of Verbal Intelligence.
M.E. Wagner, H.J.P. Schubert and D.S.P. Schubert, Sex-of-Sibling Effects:
Part I. Gender Role, Intelligence, Achievement and Creativity.
L.B. Smith, The Concept of Same.
J. Baker-Sennett, E. Matusov and B. Rogoff, Planning as Developmental Process.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

This book is useful, not only for scholars already interested in the specific topics reviewed, but for anyone open to the scientific process...

Child Development Abstracts And Bibliography

This serial publication provides scholarly technical articles serving as reference material as well as provide a place for publication of scholarly speculation. Volume 24 contains eight papers on music and speech processing in the first year of life; effects of feeding method on infant temperament; the development of reading; learning to read--a theoretical synthesis; literacy and the development of verbal intelligence; sex-of-sibling effects--gender role, intelligence, achievement, and creativity; the concept of same; and planning as developmental process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Praise for the Serial
"As in other fields of psychology, the growth of new knowledge and research findings about children's development seems to increase exponentially from year to year. In the lossing battle to keep track of all of the new findings, it is particularly valuable to have outlets like the Advances series, in which leading scholars present 'novel' perspectives on a topic using their own programmatic lines of work... The Advances series has always been a leader in showcasing groundbreaking ideas on a broad range of topics in the field. The present volume continues admirably in this tradition, with its well-written papers, rich scholarship, and careful editing... The intellectual exchange between reader and text that results is one good working illustration of the meaning of provocative. And a certain bonus of the effort is to be an early consumer of a least one or two papers destined to become 'classics' in the field." —CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

"Maintains the high level of quality and interest one has come to expect from these volumes... One only hopes that additional volumes in the series will be forthcoming." —CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

"This series has served as a major outlet for important new ideas on psychological development." —CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY

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