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The purpose of this book is to examine theories and evidence carefully in order to assess the causal links between parent behaviour and children's cognitive development.

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate how the phenomenon of early childhood autism may cast light on issues that are central to our understanding of normal child development.

The aims of this book are to consider critically the major themes and findings within this growing social-cognitive developmental research, and to present a new theoretical framework for investigating children's social cognitive skills.

This text offers a survey of approaches to the development of moral reasoning - those of Freud, ego psychology, Piaget and Kohlberg.

This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood.

This monograph brings together research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages of reading development.

Presents research on the topic of young children's naive biology, examining such theoretical issues as processes, conditions and mechanisms in conceptual development using the development of biological understanding as the target case.

For a long time researchers have believed that children are incapable of reasoning by analogy. This book argues that this is far from the case, and that analogical reasoning may be available very early in development.

Investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years.

In this book, Maureen Cox traces the development of the human form in children's drawings; she reviews the literature in the field, criticises a number of major theories and also presents new data.

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'.

Concerned with conversation and cognition in young children, this text assesses their profound conceptual limitations and considers how this inability has led researchers to accept a model of the young child as plagued by conceptual deficits.

Sheds light on dyslexia and its relationship with reading acquisition. Looking at studies conducted in different languages, this book examines the prerequisites of reading acquisition, and outlines the manifestations of developmental dyslexia. It also offers a framework for explaining both reading acquisition and developmental dyslexia.

Describes how people's subjective sense of national identity and attitudes towards countries and national groups develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. This book offers a review of the research which has been conducted into children's attitudes towards, and emotional attachment to, their own country and national group.

This monograph summarizes the research with an eye to several audiences (researchers, clinicians, educators) and with an emphasis on the questions that remain.