Books in the Studies in Developmental Psychology series

An overview of knowledge of language development in children. The book explores all of the principle strands of language development and explains and evaluates related theories, focusing on nativism versus empiricism and domain-specificity versus domain generality.

Infancy is a time of rapid growth, when brain plasticity is at a maximum. Event-related potentials (ERPs) are one of the few methods that can easily and safely be used to study this process and have led to exciting discoveries about human brain functioning and the neural basis of cognition.

This book presents an examination of both the classical issues and contemporary understanding of theory and research in social cognitive development.

A review of the research in this area, this collection covers children's understanding of family, school, economics, race, politics and gender roles. Bringing together some of the most prominent and active researchers in this field, it presents an advanced overview of developments in this under-represented area of social psychology.

This tutorial textbook on child psychology includes chapters by academics in research areas as diverse as evolutionary and cross-cultural psychology, behavioural genetics, social cognition, and media influence on child behaviour.