TY - BOOK AU - Blades Mark AU - Cowie Helen AU - Smith Peter K TI - Understanding Children's Development / Fourth Edition SN - 631228233 PY - 2003/// PB - Blackwell Publishing N2 - This book begins by introducing the ways in which psychologists study developmental processes before going on to consider all major aspects of development from conception through to adolescence. Series Preface, Acknowledgements, Theories and Methods, Studying Development, Biological and Cultural Theories of Development, The Social World of the Child, Prenatal Development and Birth, Parents and Families, The Peer Group, Becoming Socially Aware, Play, Helping Others and Moral Development, Adolescence, Children's Developing Minds, Perception, Language, Cognition: Piaget's Theory, Cognition: The Information Processing Approach, Children's Understanding of Mind, Learning in a Social Context, Intelligence and Attainment, Deprivation and Enrichment: Risk and Resilience, References, Index ER -