Understanding human development: biological, social, and psychological processes from conception to adult life
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List of figures
xix
List of tables
xxi
List of boxes
xxii
Chapter
1:
Studying human development
1
Why study human development?
1
A short history of developmental psychology
4
Darwin and the theory of evolution
5
Comparative psychology and ethology
6
Imprinting and attachment
8
Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology
9
Learning theory and behaviourism
10
Social learning theory
14
Vygotsky and social interactions in development
14
Piaget
and cognitive development
15
Information processing and cognitive development
18
Sigmund
Freud
21
Current research and the legacy of the 20th century
25
Studying development scientifically
25
The problem with facts (and the nature of data)
26
The trouble with truth (and the nature of theory)
28
Data, theories and progress in science
29
Is developmental psychology a science like physics?
30
Methods for studying human development
31
Common methodological issues in science
31
VII
Reliability and validity
31
Generality
31
Correlations and cause and effect
32
Special issues for research on human development
33
Studying change
33
Making mental processes visible
34
Studying development ethically
36
About this book
38
Exercises
40
Suggested further reading
40
Revision summary
41
Part I The beginning of life
45
Overview
45
Chapter
2:
Bodies and brains
47
Human evolution
47
Early ancestors
47
One species
50
The evolution of the brain
50
Dynamic systems theory
54
Genes
59
The structure of our genetic material
59
Nature, nurture and genes
61
Prenatal development
64
Conception
64
From conception to birth
64
The zygotic stage
64
The embryo stage
65
The fetal stage
67
Birth
68
Methods for studying prenatal development in more detail
68
Fibre-optics, ultrasound and heart rate
69
Habituation designs
70
Behaviour and learning in the womb
70
Movement
70
The senses
72
Touch
72
Taste
72
Smell
72
Sight
73
Hearing
73
Genes, uterine environments and problems in development
74
Genetic problems
74
Environmental problems
76
viii
Physical development after birth
79
Postnatal development of the brain
79
The growing body
82
Motor development
83
In conclusion
86
Exercises
87
Suggested further reading
87
Revision summary
87
Chapter
3:
Infant minds: perception, inference and understanding in the first
18
months
91
Is the newborn mind a blank slate ?
92
Piaget s theory of infant cognition
93
Assimilation, accommodation and adaptation
93
Sensori-
motor intelligence
94
Infant egocentricity and understanding objects
96
Gibson s theory
97
Two views of infant minds
99
Studying infant minds
100
Methodological issues in infancy research
100
Baby diaries
100
Recording behaviour for research
102
Drawing inferences from patterns of attention
103
Visual preference
103
Habituation
103
Conditioning
104
Measuring physiological responses
104
Heart rate
105
Brain activity: PET,
MRI
and ERP
105
Current research on infant minds
106
Perceiving shapes
106
Shape and size constancy
109
Perceiving sounds
109
Perceiving number
110
Understanding objects
112
Knowing that invisible things are there
113
Inferences about the properties of invisible objects
115
Alternative explanations for search errors
117
Factors affecting search
117
Memory
117
Motor coordination
118
Planning
119
Understanding invisibility and searching for hidden objects
120
A new theoretical understanding
120
Connectionism and infant cognition
121
A dynamic systems approach to infant cognition
123
In conclusion
124
Exercises
127
Suggested further reading
127
Revision summary
127
Chapter
4:
Growing emotions: social and personal development in the first
18
months
130
The beginnings of social responsiveness
130
Social responsiveness in the newborn
131
Conflicting interpretations of early social responsiveness
132
Recognizing people
135
Learning about faces
138
Distinguishing between living and inanimate things
139
Understanding emotions
141
Emotional expressiveness
141
Feelings and emotions
142
Understanding and sharing emotions
144
Signalling and communicating with emotions
146
Developing a concept of self
148
What is the self ?
148
Studying the origins of self in infancy
148
Explaining the origins of self in infancy
149
Discovering a consistent self (from birth on)
149
Discovering self as agent (from
4
months on)
150
Discovering the me-self (as the child approaches
18
months)
151
Social relationships in infancy: attachment and development
152
Bowlby s theory of attachment
152
Measuring the quality of attachment
155
What causes secure or insecure attachments?
158
Attachment and development
159
Temperament
161
Measuring temperament in babies
162
Cultural differences in temperament
164
Temperament and development
164
Temperament and attachment
166
In conclusion
167
Exercises
171
Suggested further reading
171
Revision summary
171
Partii
Cognitive development from infancy to adulthood
175
Overview
175
Chapter
5:
Language
177
What is language? 17g
Could other species learn to use human language?
179
Patterns in language development
180
Early days
181
The first months of life
182
Discovering words
185
Recognizing words as units in speech
186
Comprehending the meaning of words
186
Building a vocabulary
188
Vocabulary, culture and experience
190
Grammar
192
Responding to grammar
192
Producing grammatical utterances
194
Using grammar to reveal meaning
195
Working on the rules of syntax
196
Reflecting on language
196
Theories of language development
197
Biology and language
198
Chomsky and innate mechanisms for language
198
Evidence for the LAD
200
Maturation and development
201
Identifying grammatical
universais
203
Modifications to Chomsky s theory
203
Grammar from cognitive and social processes
204
Grammar and the structure of social meanings
205
Scaffolding, infant-directed speech and language
205
Building blocks for conversations
208
Connectionism and dynamic systems approaches
210
In conclusion
212
Exercises
214
Suggested further reading
214
Revision summary
214
Chapter
6:
Reasoning and conceptual understanding
218
Logic, reasoning and development
219
The nature of logic
219
Piaget
and the development of reasoning
221
Sensori-motor intelligence: birth to
18
months
222
Pre-operational reasoning:
18
months to
7
years
222
Concrete operations:
7
to
11
years
225
Formal operations: from
12
years on
226
Critiques of Piaget s theory
226
Alternative interpretations of failure in Piaget s tasks
226
The need to study mental processes more directly
228
Challenging the importance of logical structures
229
Mental models and logical reasoning
230
Transitive inferences from mental models
230
Logic,
mental
models and the development of reasoning
232
Reasoning and knowledge
232
Logical necessity
233
Literacy, mathematics and formal reasoning
234
Cultural tools and cognitive development
237
Cognitive development in adolescence
239
Heuristic reasoning
241
Heuristic reasoning, perception and memory
241
The availability heuristic
242
The representativeness heuristic
242
Is heuristic reasoning rational?
243
The development of heuristic reasoning
244
The development of knowledge
245
Concept formation
246
Conceptual organization
248
Core concepts
249
Conceptual understanding, causality and reasoning
252
Making causal connections
254
Understanding what is alive: a case study
255
Conceptual change from causal understanding
257
Developmental stages versus domain-specific knowledge
258
Novices and experts
259
Developing from novice to expert?
260
In conclusion
260
Exercises
262
Suggested further reading
262
Revision summary
262
Chapter
7:
Memory, problem solving and mechanisms of cognitive development
265
The development of memory
265
Recognition and recall
265
Does the ability to recognize things change in childhood?
266
Developmental change in recall
267
Conceptual understanding and developmental change in recall
267
Item familiarity
267
Causal understanding and recall
268
Reconstruction and recall
269
Everyday recall
270
Children s eyewitness testimony
271
Scripts and autobiographical memory
273
Deliberate memorizing
274
Understanding the point of the activity
275
Strategies for remembering
275
Meta-cognitive
awareness
276
Does the physical capacity of memory change in childhood?
277
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The development of problem-solving
280
New insights from studying knowledge in action
281
Knowledge and rules for reasoning
281
Information processing, performance and knowledge
284
The process of planning
284
Strategies in planning
285
The development of trial and error
285
The development of means-ends analysis
286
Task-specific knowledge and means-ends planning
290
Becoming an expert problem solver
291
Generalizing problem-solving skills through analogy
291
Can young children draw analogies?
292
Using analogies in problem solving
293
Mechanisms of cognitive change
294
Microgenetic methods for studying the process of change
295
Strategy selection and cognitive change: a new view of development
296
Siegler s Overlapping waves theory
297
Discovering new strategies
300
New strategies from existing procedures
301
Creative discovery from problem-solving processes
305
Social processes in the development of problem solving
309
Observation and imitation
309
Collaborating with other children
310
Learning from apprenticeship
311
In conclusion
314
Exercises
316
Suggested further reading
316
Revision summary
316
Chapter
8:
Individual
differences in cognition
320
Individual differences and IQ
320
The concept of IQ
321
Historical origins
321
A psychometric definition of intelligence
321
IQ scores
322
Does general intelligence exist?
324
Teasing out factors in intelligence
325
A new theory of intelligence
327
Measuring processing speed
329
Individual variation in intelligence and genetics
329
Does intelligence develop through childhood?
331
Predicting future performance from measures of IQ
332
Intelligence as an explanation of individual differences
334
Modern psychometric measures of individual differences
336
Psychometrics and creativity
337
xiii
Process accounts of individual differences in cognition
337
Genes 338
Social processes and individual differences
338
Individual characteristics and cognitive development
339
The process of creativity
341
Developing differently
343
Diagnosing developmental abnormalities
343
Delayed cognitive development
344
General factors in developmental delay
344
Specific developmental disabilities
345
Atypical cognitive development
347
In conclusion
348
Exercises
350
Suggested further reading
350
Revision summary
350
Part III Social and emotional development from infancy to adulthood
353
Overview
353
Chapter
9:
Understanding other people
355
Becoming a folk psychologist
356
Discovering intentions
356
Discovering the psychology of desire
358
Discovering beliefs
361
The false belief task
362
Appearance/reality tasks
363
Do 4-year-olds develop a theory of mind ?
363
Factors affecting the discovery of the mind
366
Social interactions and the growth of psychological insight
366
Cognitive processing power and representations of others
368
Biological bases for discovering the mind
370
Autism and the failure of mind-reading
373
The clinical syndrome of autism
373
What causes autism?
377
The development of autism
380
Empathy and sympathy
381
The origins of empathy
381
Empathy, sympathy and personal distress
382
The development of sympathy versus personal distress
383
Right feeling, right behaviour
384
Gender differences in insight, empathy and sympathy
384
Psychopathy and the failure of sympathy
385
The clinical syndrome of antisocial personality disorder (APD)
386
What causes APD?
387
In conclusion
339
xiv
Exercises
391
Suggested further reading
391
Revision summary
391
Chapter
10:
Personality and identity
394
The development of personality
394
Traits and types
395
Studying the structure of personality
395
Personality traits
396
Types
397
Traits, types and development
397
Infant temperament and adult personality
399
Developing a consistent personality
402
Setting the tone of the reaction-evocation cycle
403
Reality and the power of the reaction-evocation cycle
404
Working to maintain the familiar reaction-evocation cycle
405
Developmental processes in personality
406
Stable traits, changing behaviour
406
Changing roles and changing emphases
406
Cultural processes in personality development
407
Change and consistency through the lifespan
408
Life trajectories, transitions and turning points
409
Developing a personal identity
411
The nature of personal identity
412
Self-concepts in childhood and adolescence
413
Developmental processes in the evolution of self concepts
416
Continuities in self-concepts
419
Adolescent identity formation
420
Culture, class, ethnicity, race, gender and identity
423
Childhood
423
Universal and specific processes in conceptualizing self
423
Culture and the content of children s self-concepts
424
Gender and ethnic identity in childhood
426
Adolescence
429
Is the adolescent identity crisis a cultural artefact?
430
Culture and adolescent identity formation
431
Identity formation in ethnic minorities
435
Gender and sexual identity in adolescence
437
In conclusion
440
Exercises
442
Suggested further reading
442
Revision summary
443
Chapter
11:
Social relationships
446
Families and development
446
XV
Parenting styles, emotional development and self-esteem
446
Parenting styles
447
The impact of parenting styles on development
448
Culture, parenting style and development
454
Parenting style and socio-economic class
459
Fathers, mothers and parenting
459
Family structure and development
461
Siblings
465
Divorce
470
Children s reactions to divorce
470
Divorce and development
471
Divorce and poverty
473
Parental conflict
474
The absent father
475
Children without parents
475
Peer relationships
476
The development of social interactions
476
Social relationships in preschool children
477
Social relationships in middle childhood
481
Social relationships in adolescence
484
From
platonie
friendship to romance
486
Culture and the development of peer relationships
488
Information technology and friendships
490
Brains and adolescent behaviour
491
Social status
494
Measuring social status
496
What determines social status?
497
Developmental outcomes, rejection and bullying
498
In conclusion
501
Exercises
503
Suggested further reading
503
Revision summary
503
Chapter
12:
Prosocial
and antisocial behaviour
506
Evolutionary theories
506
The problem of
prosocial
behaviour
506
Beyond biology
507
The importance of empathy
508
Hoffman s theory
508
Does empathy explain
prosocial
behaviour?
509
Prosocial
behaviour doesn t always reflect empathy
509
Empathie
ability is not enough to ensure
prosocial
behaviour
510
Being selective with
empathie
concern
512
An overview of the role of empathy
514
The development of moral reasoning
514
XVI
Piageťs
account of the development of morality
515
Kohlberg s stages of moral reasoning
517
Kohlberg,
gender and the ethic of care
523
Kohlberg,
culture and ethical imperialism
525
Kohlberg,
children, everyday dilemmas and distributive justice
528
A stage model of moral reasoning?
531
Distinguishing moral and social rules
532
Moral reasoning and moral behaviour
533
Conscience and moral identity
537
The origins of conscience in early childhood
538
Conscience and the development of moral emotions
539
Moral identity and moral behaviour
540
Saints and moral exemplars
542
Individual differences in
prosocial
and antisocial tendencies
543
Genetics
543
The child s inheritance
544
Genes and families
546
Parents and families
546
Early parenting and pro- or antisocial life trajectories
546
Moral development and parenting styles beyond infancy
549
Are there crimogenic families?
549
Communities and peer groups
550
Just and unjust communities
551
Peer groups
552
Explaining evil
553
A dynamic systems perspective
555
In conclusion
559
Exercises
560
Suggested further reading
560
Revision summary
560
A final comment
563
Chapter
13:
Toward a new view of development
565
Exercises
568
Suggested further reading
568
References
569
Name index
629
Subject index
647
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List of figures
xix
List of tables
xxi
List of boxes
xxii
Chapter
1:
Studying human development
1
Why study human development?
1
A short history of developmental psychology
4
Darwin and the theory of evolution
5
Comparative psychology and ethology
6
Imprinting and attachment
8
Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology
9
Learning theory and behaviourism
10
Social learning theory
14
Vygotsky and social interactions in development
14
Piaget
and cognitive development
15
Information processing and cognitive development
18
Sigmund
Freud
21
Current research and the legacy of the 20th century
25
Studying development scientifically
25
The problem with 'facts' (and the nature of data)
26
The trouble with truth (and the nature of theory)
28
Data, theories and progress in science
29
Is developmental psychology a science like physics?
30
Methods for studying human development
31
Common methodological issues in science
31
VII
Reliability and validity
31
Generality
31
Correlations and cause and effect
32
Special issues for research on human development
33
Studying change
33
Making mental processes visible
34
Studying development ethically
36
About this book
38
Exercises
40
Suggested further reading
40
Revision summary
41
Part I The beginning of life
45
Overview
45
Chapter
2:
Bodies and brains
47
Human evolution
47
Early ancestors
47
One species
50
The evolution of the brain
50
Dynamic systems theory
54
Genes
59
The structure of our genetic material
59
Nature, nurture and genes
61
Prenatal development
64
Conception
64
From conception to birth
64
The zygotic stage
64
The embryo stage
65
The fetal stage
67
Birth
68
Methods for studying prenatal development in more detail
68
Fibre-optics, ultrasound and heart rate
69
Habituation designs
70
Behaviour and learning in the womb
70
Movement
70
The senses
72
Touch
72
Taste
72
Smell
72
Sight
73
Hearing
73
Genes, uterine environments and problems in development
74
Genetic problems
74
Environmental problems
76
viii
Physical development after birth
79
Postnatal development of the brain
79
The growing body
82
Motor development
83
In conclusion
86
Exercises
87
Suggested further reading
87
Revision summary
87
Chapter
3:
Infant minds: perception, inference and understanding in the first
18
months
91
Is the newborn mind a 'blank slate'?
92
Piaget's theory of infant cognition
93
Assimilation, accommodation and adaptation
93
Sensori-
motor intelligence
94
Infant egocentricity and understanding objects
96
Gibson's theory
97
Two views of infant minds
99
Studying infant minds
100
Methodological issues in infancy research
100
Baby diaries
100
Recording behaviour for research
102
Drawing inferences from patterns of attention
103
Visual preference
103
Habituation
103
Conditioning
104
Measuring physiological responses
104
Heart rate
105
Brain activity: PET,
MRI
and ERP
105
Current research on infant minds
106
Perceiving shapes
106
Shape and size constancy
109
Perceiving sounds
109
Perceiving number
110
Understanding objects
112
Knowing that invisible things are there
113
Inferences about the properties of invisible objects
115
Alternative explanations for search errors
117
Factors affecting search
117
Memory
117
Motor coordination
118
Planning
119
Understanding invisibility and searching for hidden objects
120
A new theoretical understanding
120
Connectionism and infant cognition
121
A dynamic systems approach to infant cognition
123
In conclusion
124
Exercises
127
Suggested further reading
127
Revision summary
127
Chapter
4:
Growing emotions: social and personal development in the first
18
months
130
The beginnings of social responsiveness
130
Social responsiveness in the newborn
131
Conflicting interpretations of early social responsiveness
132
Recognizing people
135
Learning about faces
138
Distinguishing between living and inanimate things
139
Understanding emotions
141
Emotional expressiveness
141
Feelings and emotions
142
Understanding and sharing emotions
144
Signalling and communicating with emotions
146
Developing a concept of self
148
What is the 'self'?
148
Studying the origins of self in infancy
148
Explaining the origins of self in infancy
149
Discovering a consistent self (from birth on)
149
Discovering 'self as agent' (from
4
months on)
150
Discovering the 'me-self' (as the child approaches
18
months)
151
Social relationships in infancy: attachment and development
152
Bowlby's theory of attachment
152
Measuring the quality of attachment
155
What causes secure or insecure attachments?
158
Attachment and development
159
Temperament
161
Measuring temperament in babies
162
Cultural differences in temperament
164
Temperament and development
164
Temperament and attachment
166
In conclusion
167
Exercises
171
Suggested further reading
171
Revision summary
171
Partii
Cognitive development from infancy to adulthood
175
Overview
175
Chapter
5:
Language
177
What is language? 17g
Could other species learn to use human language?
179
Patterns in language development
180
Early days
181
The first months of life
182
Discovering words
185
Recognizing words as units in speech
186
Comprehending the meaning of words
186
Building a vocabulary
188
Vocabulary, culture and experience
190
Grammar
192
Responding to grammar
192
Producing grammatical utterances
194
Using grammar to reveal meaning
195
Working on the rules of syntax
196
Reflecting on language
196
Theories of language development
197
Biology and language
198
Chomsky and innate mechanisms for language
198
Evidence for the LAD
200
Maturation and development
201
Identifying grammatical
universais
203
Modifications to Chomsky's theory
203
Grammar from cognitive and social processes
204
Grammar and the structure of social meanings
205
Scaffolding, infant-directed speech and language
205
Building blocks for conversations
208
Connectionism and dynamic systems approaches
210
In conclusion
212
Exercises
214
Suggested further reading
214
Revision summary
214
Chapter
6:
Reasoning and conceptual understanding
218
Logic, reasoning and development
219
The nature of logic
219
Piaget
and the development of reasoning
221
Sensori-motor intelligence: birth to
18
months
222
Pre-operational reasoning:
18
months to
7
years
222
Concrete operations:
7
to
11
years
225
Formal operations: from
12
years on
226
Critiques of Piaget's theory
226
Alternative interpretations of failure in Piaget's tasks
226
The need to study mental processes more directly
228
Challenging the importance of logical structures
229
Mental models and logical reasoning
230
Transitive inferences from mental models
230
Logic,
mental
models and the development of reasoning
232
Reasoning and knowledge
232
Logical necessity
233
Literacy, mathematics and formal reasoning
234
Cultural tools and cognitive development
237
Cognitive development in adolescence
239
Heuristic reasoning
241
Heuristic reasoning, perception and memory
241
The 'availability' heuristic
242
The 'representativeness' heuristic
242
Is heuristic reasoning rational?
243
The development of heuristic reasoning
244
The development of knowledge
245
Concept formation
246
Conceptual organization
248
Core concepts
249
Conceptual understanding, causality and reasoning
252
Making causal connections
254
Understanding what is alive: a case study
255
Conceptual change from causal understanding
257
Developmental stages versus domain-specific knowledge
258
Novices and experts
259
Developing from novice to expert?
260
In conclusion
260
Exercises
262
Suggested further reading
262
Revision summary
262
Chapter
7:
Memory, problem solving and mechanisms of cognitive development
265
The development of memory
265
Recognition and recall
265
Does the ability to recognize things change in childhood?
266
Developmental change in recall
267
Conceptual understanding and developmental change in recall
267
Item familiarity
267
Causal understanding and recall
268
Reconstruction and recall
269
Everyday recall
270
Children's eyewitness testimony
271
Scripts and autobiographical memory
273
Deliberate memorizing
274
Understanding the point of the activity
275
Strategies for remembering
275
Meta-cognitive
awareness
276
Does the physical capacity of memory change in childhood?
277
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The development of problem-solving
280
New insights from studying knowledge in action
281
Knowledge and rules for reasoning
281
Information processing, performance and knowledge
284
The process of planning
284
Strategies in planning
285
The development of trial and error
285
The development of means-ends analysis
286
Task-specific knowledge and means-ends planning
290
Becoming an expert problem solver
291
Generalizing problem-solving skills through analogy
291
Can young children draw analogies?
292
Using analogies in problem solving
293
Mechanisms of cognitive change
294
Microgenetic methods for studying the process of change
295
Strategy selection and cognitive change: a new view of development
296
Siegler's Overlapping waves' theory
297
Discovering new strategies
300
New strategies from existing procedures
301
Creative discovery from problem-solving processes
305
Social processes in the development of problem solving
309
Observation and imitation
309
Collaborating with other children
310
Learning from apprenticeship
311
In conclusion
314
Exercises
316
Suggested further reading
316
Revision summary
316
Chapter
8:
Individual
differences in cognition
320
Individual differences and IQ
320
The concept of IQ
321
Historical origins
321
A psychometric definition of intelligence
321
IQ scores
322
Does general intelligence exist?
324
Teasing out factors in intelligence
325
A new theory of intelligence
327
Measuring processing speed
329
Individual variation in intelligence and genetics
329
Does intelligence develop through childhood?
331
Predicting future performance from measures of IQ
332
Intelligence as an explanation of individual differences
334
Modern psychometric measures of individual differences
336
Psychometrics and creativity
337
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Process accounts of individual differences in cognition
337
Genes 338
Social processes and individual differences
338
Individual characteristics and cognitive development
339
The process of creativity
341
Developing differently
343
Diagnosing developmental abnormalities
343
Delayed cognitive development
344
General factors in developmental delay
344
Specific developmental disabilities
345
Atypical cognitive development
347
In conclusion
348
Exercises
350
Suggested further reading
350
Revision summary
350
Part III Social and emotional development from infancy to adulthood
353
Overview
353
Chapter
9:
Understanding other people
355
Becoming a folk psychologist
356
Discovering intentions
356
Discovering the psychology of desire
358
Discovering beliefs
361
The 'false belief' task
362
'Appearance/reality' tasks
363
Do 4-year-olds develop a 'theory of mind'?
363
Factors affecting the discovery of the mind
366
Social interactions and the growth of psychological insight
366
Cognitive processing power and representations of others
368
Biological bases for discovering the mind
370
Autism and the failure of mind-reading
373
The clinical syndrome of autism
373
What causes autism?
377
The development of autism
380
Empathy and sympathy
381
The origins of empathy
381
Empathy, sympathy and personal distress
382
The development of sympathy versus personal distress
383
Right feeling, right behaviour
384
Gender differences in insight, empathy and sympathy
384
Psychopathy and the failure of sympathy
385
The clinical syndrome of antisocial personality disorder (APD)
386
What causes APD?
387
In conclusion
339
xiv
Exercises
391
Suggested further reading
391
Revision summary
391
Chapter
10:
Personality and identity
394
The development of personality
394
Traits and types
395
Studying the structure of personality
395
Personality traits
396
Types
397
Traits, types and development
397
Infant temperament and adult personality
399
Developing a consistent personality
402
Setting the tone of the reaction-evocation cycle
403
'Reality' and the power of the reaction-evocation cycle
404
Working to maintain the familiar reaction-evocation cycle
405
Developmental processes in personality
406
Stable traits, changing behaviour
406
Changing roles and changing emphases
406
Cultural processes in personality development
407
Change and consistency through the lifespan
408
Life trajectories, transitions and turning points
409
Developing a personal identity
411
The nature of personal identity
412
Self-concepts in childhood and adolescence
413
Developmental processes in the evolution of self concepts
416
Continuities in self-concepts
419
Adolescent identity formation
420
Culture, class, ethnicity, race, gender and identity
423
Childhood
423
Universal and specific processes in conceptualizing self
423
Culture and the content of children's self-concepts
424
Gender and ethnic identity in childhood
426
Adolescence
429
Is the adolescent identity crisis a cultural artefact?
430
Culture and adolescent identity formation
431
Identity formation in ethnic minorities
435
Gender and sexual identity in adolescence
437
In conclusion
440
Exercises
442
Suggested further reading
442
Revision summary
443
Chapter
11:
Social relationships
446
Families and development
446
XV
Parenting styles, emotional development and self-esteem
446
Parenting styles
447
The impact of parenting styles on development
448
Culture, parenting style and development
454
Parenting style and socio-economic class
459
Fathers, mothers and parenting
459
Family structure and development
461
Siblings
465
Divorce
470
Children's reactions to divorce
470
Divorce and development
471
Divorce and poverty
473
Parental conflict
474
The absent father
475
Children without parents
475
Peer relationships
476
The development of social interactions
476
Social relationships in preschool children
477
Social relationships in middle childhood
481
Social relationships in adolescence
484
From
platonie
friendship to romance
486
Culture and the development of peer relationships
488
Information technology and friendships
490
Brains and adolescent behaviour
491
Social status
494
Measuring social status
496
What determines social status?
497
Developmental outcomes, rejection and bullying
498
In conclusion
501
Exercises
503
Suggested further reading
503
Revision summary
503
Chapter
12:
Prosocial
and antisocial behaviour
506
Evolutionary theories
506
The problem of
prosocial
behaviour
506
Beyond biology
507
The importance of empathy
508
Hoffman's theory
508
Does empathy explain
prosocial
behaviour?
509
Prosocial
behaviour doesn't always reflect empathy
509
Empathie
ability is not enough to ensure
prosocial
behaviour
510
Being selective with
empathie
concern
512
An overview of the role of empathy
514
The development of moral reasoning
514
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Piageťs
account of the development of morality
515
Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning
517
Kohlberg,
gender and the ethic of care
523
Kohlberg,
culture and 'ethical imperialism'
525
Kohlberg,
children, everyday dilemmas and distributive justice
528
A stage model of moral reasoning?
531
Distinguishing moral and social rules
532
Moral reasoning and moral behaviour
533
Conscience and moral identity
537
The origins of conscience in early childhood
538
Conscience and the development of moral emotions
539
Moral identity and moral behaviour
540
'Saints' and 'moral exemplars'
542
Individual differences in
prosocial
and antisocial tendencies
543
Genetics
543
The child's inheritance
544
Genes and families
546
Parents and families
546
Early parenting and pro- or antisocial life trajectories
546
Moral development and parenting styles beyond infancy
549
Are there crimogenic families?
549
Communities and peer groups
550
'Just' and 'unjust' communities
551
Peer groups
552
Explaining evil
553
A dynamic systems perspective
555
In conclusion
559
Exercises
560
Suggested further reading
560
Revision summary
560
A final comment
563
Chapter
13:
Toward a new view of development
565
Exercises
568
Suggested further reading
568
References
569
Name index
629
Subject index
647
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