Usha Goswami (Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience and

Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This Very Short Introduction tracks child development from birth to early adolescence. Exploring the process of attachment and psychological relationships, as well as methods of active learning, including language and reasoning, Usha Goshwami explains how children develop as they do and how we can understand developmental differences.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 114mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 121g
• ISBN-13: 9780199646593
• ISBN-10: 0199646597
• Artikelnr.: 41193109

Autorenporträt

Usha Goswami is currently Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge. She has received a number of career awards, including the British Psychology Society's Spearman Medal (1992) and President's Award (2011); the Aspen Brain Forum Senior Investigator Prize in Neuroeducation, New York Academy of Sciences; and the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize for dyslexia research from Sweden. Goswami has written and edited a number of textbooks on child psychology, and has also written books on reading development and reasoning by analogy. She is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Babies and what they know
2: Learning about the outside world
3: Learning language
4: Friendships, famillies, pretend play and the imagination
5: Going to school
6: The learning brain
7: Theories and neurobiology of development
Further reading
Index