Child psychology / by the yearbook committee and associated contributors ; edited by Harold W. Stevenson ; with the assistance of Jerome Kagan and Charles Spiker ; editors for the society, Nelson B. Henry and Herman G. Richey.
"There is no single volume which gives a comprehensive picture of the current status of our knowledge about the behavior and development of normal children. It is especially appropriate, therefore, that the National Society for the Study of Education has chosen child psychology as the subject f...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
NSSE,
1963.
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| Series: | Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education ;
new ser., 62nd, pt. 1. |
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "There is no single volume which gives a comprehensive picture of the current status of our knowledge about the behavior and development of normal children. It is especially appropriate, therefore, that the National Society for the Study of Education has chosen child psychology as the subject for one part of its Sixty-second Yearbook. An exhaustive review of current research would be impossible in other than a manual or handbook. The book concentrates upon an integrated discussion of currently active and representative research areas in child psychology. There is no series of chapters on infancy, preschool children, and the like; developmental changes in behavior are discussed in each chapter whenever possible. The common division into chapters on such subjects as social behavior and emotional behavior has been discarded. Again, no attempt was made to include a discussion of the rapidly growing literature on the deviant or abnormal child. Approximately 2,000 studies, most of them conducted during the past decade, are reviewed, with the goal of providing the reader with a picture of the breadth, vitality, and richness of our current knowledge about children. Behavior is governed not only by psychological but also by biological and sociological forces. It is appropriate, therefore, that the volume begins with a discussion of current research on the biological and sociological correlates of behavior. Certain broad behavioral processes, such as learning, thinking, and perceiving, have always been of concern to the child psychologist, and a group of chapters reviews the current status of our knowledge about these processes. There is a group of chapters on more specific aspects of behavior, such as aggression, anxiety, and dependence, which have always been of interest to the child psychologist, but which have received major attention in recent years. The final chapter deals with the theoretical backgrounds of child psychology. The volume is heavily documented. The references included with each chapter should be helpful to the individual interested in pursuing research in a particular area, or in reading the studies discussed in greater detail"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 550, vi pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |