During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor
skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the …

This is an original, important and stimulating book, which attempts a Hegelian synthesis of
Piagetian constructivism and Fodorian modularity in terms of the author's own model of …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the
ability to pretend. A child's knowledge of a real situation is apparently contradicted and …

Discusses general conceptual growth, with special emphasis on the contributions of Piaget.
Other areas discussed—including social cognition, perception, and memory—are based …

The development of prosocial and reparative behaviors was investigated by examining
children's responses to distresses they caused and those they witnessed in others during …

I must say that my first impression of the third edition of Play and Child Development was: ey
did it AGAIN! Frost, Wortham, and Reifel again impressed me with the depth and breadth of …

Quite simply, this is the best text on play and development I have ever read. It was thought
provoking while being reader-friendly at the same time. This work is very thorough and …

While the subject of play may seem trivial for behavioral science, EO Wilson noted that
understanding the significance of play is an important challenge facing scholars in these …

Like every other aspect of human development, language development is characterized by
variation. Historically this variation has been largely ignored by students of child language …