Developmental Psychology
Psychology:
Revisiting the Classic Studies
Series Editors:
S. Alexander Haslam, Alan M. Slater and Joanne R. Smith
School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG
Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies is a new series of texts aimed at students and general readers who are interested in understanding issues raised by key studies in psychology. Volumes centre on 1215 studies, with each chapter providing a detailed account of a particular classic study and its empirical and theoretical impact. Chapters also discuss the important ways in which thinking and research has advanced in the years since the study was conducted. Chapters are written by researchers at the cutting edge of these developments and, as a result, these texts serve as an excellent resource for instructors and students looking to explore different perspectives on core material that defines the field of psychology as we know it today.
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Social Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies
Joanne R. Smith and S. Alexander Haslam
Developmental Psychology
Revisiting the Classic Studies
Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn
Introduction and Editorial Arrangement Alan M. Slater & Paul C. Quinn 2012
Roger Kobak 2012
Thomas H. Ollendick, Thomas M. Sherman, Peter Muris, and Neville J. King
Karen E. Adolph and Kari S. Kretch 2012
David Klahr 2012
Alan M. Slater 2012
Denis Mareschal and Jordy Kaufman 2012
Kelly McWilliams, Daniel Bederian-Gardner, Sue D. Hobbs, Sarah Bakanosky and Gail S. Goodman 2012
Wendy Johnson 2012
Usha Goswami 2012
Coralie Chevallier 2012
Gail D. Heyman and Kang Lee 2012
Jennifer E. Lansford 2012
Richard N. Aslin 2012
Ann S. Masten 2012
First published 2012
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If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton in a letter to his scientific rival, Robert Hooke, 5 February 1676
Contents
Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn
Roger Kobak
Thomas H. Ollendick, Thomas M. Sherman, Peter Muris, and Neville J. King
Karen E. Adolph and Kari S. Kretch
David Klahr
Alan M. Slater
Denis Mareschal and Jordy Kaufman
Kelly McWilliams, Daniel Bederian-Gardner, Sue D. Hobbs, Sarah Bakanosky, and Gail S. Goodman
Wendy Johnson
Usha Goswami
Coralie Chevallier
Gail D. Heyman and Kang Lee
Jennifer E. Lansford
Richard N. Aslin
Ann S. Masten
Subject Index
List of Contributors
Karen E. Adolph | Department of Psychology, New York University, USA. |
Richard N. Aslin | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, USA. |
Sarah Bakanosky | Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA. |
Daniel Bederian-Gardner | Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA. |
Coralie Chevallier | The Center for Autism Research, University of Pennsylvania, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, USA. |
Gail S. Goodman | Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA. |
Usha Goswami | Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge, UK. |
Gail D. Heyman | Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA. |
Sue D. Hobbs | Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA. |
Wendy Johnson | Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, and Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. |
Jordy Kaufman | Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre, Swinburne College of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. |
Neville J. King | Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. |
David Klahr | Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. |
Roger Kobak | Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, USA. |
Kari S. Kretch | Department of Psychology, New York University, USA. |
Jennifer E. Lansford | Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, USA. |
Kang Lee | University of Toronto, Canada and University of California, San Diego, USA. |
Denis Mareschal | Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. |
Ann S. Masten | Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. |
Kelly McWilliams | Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA. |
Peter Muris | Clinical and Health Psychology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. |
Thomas H. Ollendick | Child Study Center, Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. |
Paul C. Quinn | Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, USA. |
Thomas M. Sherman | Department of Learning Sciences and Technologies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. |
Alan M. Slater | School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK |
An Introduction to the Classic Studies in Developmental Psychology
Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn
In the long history of developmental psychology there have been thousands of articles, books, monographs and chapters written and a small number of these can be identified as classics. These are studies that have helped shape the discipline and have had a major impact on its development. As Christian Jarrett, author of The