Child Development Contexts and Cascades

Part 1: Foundations of child development
1: Goals and theories
2: Research methods
3: Heredity, environment, and the brain
4: Prenatal and postnatal health and physical development
Part 2: Infancy and toddlerhood
5: Perceptual and motor development in infancy and toddlerhood
6: Cognitive development in infancy and toddlerhood
7: Language development in infancy and toddlerhood
8: Emotional and social development in infancy and toddlerhood
Part 3: Early childhood
9: Physical development and health in early childhood
10: Cognitive and language development in early childhood
11: Emotional and social development in early childhood
12: Challenges in child development: infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood
Part 4: Middle childhood
13: Cognitive development in middle childhood
14: Emotional and social development in middle childhood
Part 5: Adolescence
15: Cognitive development in adolescence
16: Emotional and social development in adolescence
17: Challenges in child development: middle childhood and adolescence

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

Steffie van der Steen

Hester Duffy

Catherine Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt, where she examines learning and development in social and cultural contexts. She has co-authored a number of titles on parenting and early child development and serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology. She is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Catherine is the sole author of the US-originating edition of this textbook which published in 2021: Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades. Steffie van der Steen and Hester Duffy are co-authors of this UK and Europe adaptation of Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda's textbook. Steffie van der Steen (Ed.M. Harvard University, PhD University of Groningen) is an Associate Professor in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) where she teaches courses on child rearing and development. Her main research topics include animal-assisted interventions, special needs education and teacher-student interactions. Hester Duffy (PhD University of Plymouth) is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Warwick, where she teaches both developmental psychology and research methods. Her research interests focus on early language acquisition, and in particular the impact of infant-directed speech, and the acquisition of minoritized languages (especially Irish).

Learning features, accessible via the e-book, include:

• Author videos ('Contexts' and 'Cascades')
• 'Research in Action' videos with accompanying viewing guides and multiple-choice questions
• End-of-section multiple-choice questions
• 'Data in Action' exercises
• Flashcard glossary

The book's teaching resources, accessible online for adopting lecturers, include:

• Guidance for courses taking a topical approach
• Instructor's manual
• Short-answer question and answers
• PowerPoint slides
• Test bank
• Figures and tables

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" Child Development is excellent." - Lamprini Psychogiou, University of Exeter