Understanding Children's Development

This Third Edition provides a lucid and authoritative discussion and introduction to child development. Revised and updated to account for developments in the field, it includes new discussions of the major issues as well as expanded coverage of the practical applications of this research.The authors begin by introducing the reader to the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes and survey the relevance of evolutionary theory of child development before going on to consider all of the major aspects of development including social, moral and cognitive development. Throughout the book, each chapter provides a lively and lucid discussion of the material through the inclusion of particularly important and revealing case studies mad through ideas for discussion and practical exercises.