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This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding. Exploring childhood learning, ranging from aspects of language and thinking to cognitive reasoning, Goswami looks at how babies and toddlers develop an understanding of the physical, biological, and social worlds, and develop complex abilities like language and morality. Demonstrating how learning is shaped by the environments surrounding the child; at home, school, with peers, and in wider society, Goswami emphasizes the importance of childhood friendships and siblings for psychological development. Introducing the key theories in child psychology, Goswami explains why children develop as they do and how society can further optimize their development through the adolescent years.

 

Table of Contents

 

List of illustrations

xv

Introduction 1 (3)

Babies and what they know 4 (18)

2 Learning about the outside world

22 (18)

3 Learning language

40 (17)

4 Friendships, families, pretend play, and the imagination

57 (17)

5 Learning and remembering, reading and number

74 (16)

6 The learning brain

90 (17)

7 Theories and neurobiology of development

107 (18)

References 125 (4)

Further reading 129 (2)

Index 131