Psychological Development & Early Childhood

Psychological Development & Early Childhood

1. Children & Development

   • Images of Childhood
   • Children as Development
   • A Right to Development
   • Child Development and Global Childhoods
   • Conclusion
   • What is Development

2. Theories of Development

   • Behaviourism
   • Social Learning Theory
   • Constructivism
   • Conclusion
   • Introduction
   • Social Constructivism

3. Sensation to Perception

   • Vision
   • Hearing
   • Cross-modal Perception
   • Perceiving the World: A Multisensesory Experience
   • Conclusion
   • Introduction

4. Early Cognitive Development

   • The Development of Understanding Representations
   • Understanding Objects
   • Conclusion
   • Introduction
   • People: The Social Object

5. Temperament & Development

   • Four Temperament Theories
   • Influence of Temperament on Development
   • Measuring Temperament
   • Individual Differences
   • Problems in Defining Temperament
   • Introduction
   • Conclusion

6. Origins of Development

   • Evolutionary Development Psychology
   • What is Behavioural Genetics?
   • Conclusion
   • Introduction
   • The Influence of Genes on Development
   • Investigating Human Behavioural Genetics

7. First Relationships

   • Conclusion
   • Transacting
   • Describing Relationships
   • Meshing
   • Imitation
   • Scaffolding
   • Containing
   • Introduction