目次

Preface; 1. Introducing the Study of Child Development 2. Biological Bases of Child Development: evolution and genes 3. Biological Bases of Child Development: Brain Development 4. Big Developmental theories: Piaget, information-processing, Vygotsky 5. The Development of Cognitive Skills 6. Language Development 7. Cognition and Education 8. Personality, emotion regulation and an introduction to developmental Psychopathology 9. Social Relationships and the Family 10. Peers and the Child as Social Person; Play