The Oxford handbook of developmental psychology / edited by Philip David Zelazo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Volume 2. Part one. Introduction. 1.Developmental psychology: a new synthesis. Philip David Zelazo -- Part two.Personality and emotional development -- 2.Personality and emotional development. Nathan A. Fox, Bethany C., Reeb-Sutherland, and Kathryn A. Degnan-- 3.The development of stress reactivity: a neurobiological perspective. Megan R. Gunnar and Adrianna M. Herrera -- 4.The development of emotion regulating: integrating normative and individual differences through developmental neuroscience. Marc D. Lewis -- 5.The developing moralities: a cognitive neuroscience approach. R. J. R. Blair -- 6.The structure of temperament and personality traits: a developmental perspective. Rebecca L. Shiner and Colin G. de Young -- 7.Tempermental contributions to inhibited and uninhibited profiles. Jerome Kagan -- Part three. Social development -- 8.Social development. Carol S. Dweck -- 9.Attachment theory and research: Precis and prospect. Ross A. Thompson -- 10.A neural networks, information processing model of joint attention and social-cognitive development. Peter Mundy -- 11.Peer relationship in childhood. Kenneth H.Rubin, Julie C. Bowker, Kristina L. McDonald and Melissa Menzer -- 12.Play. Anthony D. Pellegrini -- 13.Prosocial development. Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy L. Spinrad, and Amanda S. Morris -- 14.Gender development during childhood. Campbell Leaper -- 15.Self-conceptualizing in development. Philippe Rochat -- 16.Theory of mind: self-relection and social understanding. Janet Wide Astinton and Claire Hughes -- 17.Sociocultural contexts of development. Mary Gauvain -- Part four. Developmental psychopathology -- 18.An oveerview of development psychopathology. Dante Cicchetti -- 19.Modularity and developmental disorders. Michael S. C. Thomas. Harry R. M. Purser, and Fiona M. Richardson -- 20.Agression and antisocial behavior: a developmental perspective. Jean R Seþgun and Richard E. Temblay -- 21.The social environment and the development of psychopathology. Kirby Deater-Deckard -- 22.Attenion-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: toward a developmental synthesis. Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke -- 23.Risk and resilience in development. Ann S. Masten.

v. 1. Body and mind -- v. 2. Self and other.

Volume 1.Part one.Introduction -- 1.Developmental psychology: a new synthesis. Philip David Zelazo -- 2.History of research in developmental psychology. W. Andrew Collins and Williar W. Hartup -- 3.Research design and methods: towards a cumulative developmental science. J. Steven Reznick -- Part two.Biological development -- 4.Biological development: theoretical approaches, techniques. and key findings. Robert Lickliter -- 5.Behvioral genetics, genetics, and epigentics. David S. Moore -- 6.Postnatal brain development. Julie C. Markant and Kathleen M. Thomas -- 7.Sex and sex differences. Melissa Hines -- 8.Sensitive periods in visual development.Daphne Maurer and Terri L. Lewis -- Part three.Perceptual-motor relations in obvious and nonobvious domains: a history and review. Mark A. Schmuckler -- 10.Visual development. Janette Atkinson and Oliver Braddick --11.Auditory and musical development. Laurel J. Trainor and Chao He -- 12. Development of face-processing ability in childhood. Kang Lee, Paul C. Quinn, Olivier Pascalis, and Alan Slater -- 13.Object perception. Scott P. Johnson -- 14. The development of reachinga ctons. Geert Savelsbergh, John van der Kamp, and Margot van Wermeskerken -- 15.The road to walking: what learning to walk tells us about development. Karen E. Adolph and Scott R. Robinson -- Part Four.Cognitive development -- 16.Cognitive development -- 16.Cognitive development: an overview. David F. Bjorklund -- 17.Computaitonal models in developmental psychology. Thomas R. Shultz -- 18.Memory. Patricia J. Bauer -- 19.Concepts in development.Susan A. Gelman -- 20.Spatial development. Nora S. Newcombe, David H. Uttal, and Megan Sauter -- 21.Categorization. David H. Rakison and Chris A. Lawson -- 22. Casualty. Alison Gopnik -- 23.Imitation: social, cognitive, and theoretical perspectives. Andrew E. Eltzoff and Rebecca Williamson -- 24.Development of attention networks. M. Rosario Rueda and Michael I. Posner -- 25.Executive function. Stephanie M.Carlson, Philip David Zelazo, and Susan Faja -- 26.Reasoning. Deanna Kuhn -- 27.The history of intelligence: new spectacles for developmental psychology., James R. Flynn and Clancy Blair -- 28.Imagination. Marjorie Taylor -- 29.Moral development: the social domain theory view. Judith G. Smetana -- Part five.Language development -- 30.From coo to code: a brief story of language development. Julia Parrish- Morris, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek -- 31.Speech perception in infancy: a foundaiton for langugae acquisition. Janet F. Werker and Judit Gervain -- 32.Sytntax acquisition. Jill de Villiers and Peter de Villiers -- 33.Gestguer\'s role in learning and development. Susan Goldin-Meadow and Martha W,. Alibali -- 34.Symbols and symbolic though. Tara Callaghan.

This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of what is now known about psychological development, from birth to biological maturity, and it highlights how cultural, social, cognitive, neural, and molecular processes work together to yield human behaviour and changes in human behaviour.