TY - BOOK AU - Blades Mark AU - Cowie Helen AU - Smith Peter K TI - Understanding Children's Development / Third Edition SN - 631194126 PY - 1998/// PB - Blackwell Publishers N2 - A lucid and authoritative discussion of child development for beginning psychology students. Preface, Acknowledgements, Theories and Methods, Studying Development, The Biological Perspective, The Social World of the Child, Parents and Families, Friends and School, 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, The Social Context: Deprivation and Enrichment, Ethical Principles for Conducting Research with Human Participants, Careers in Psychology, References, Index ER -