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Book SynopsisAmanda Ludlow is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She spent two and half years at the University of Birmingham, where she still remains as a research associate, and she is the external examiner at both the University of Middlesex and Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of numerous scholarly works focusing on children with development disorders and in 2012 she co-authored a book entitled Developmental Psychopathology. Roberto Gutierrez is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He joined Anglia Ruskin University as a lecturer in psychology in 2008 and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge for the last five years. He is a social psychologist specialising in group behaviour as well the development of emotions. He is the author of numerous scholarly works on moral emotions and group processes. His current research interests relate to emotions and to group processes, more specifically, soci
Trade Review"As a concise, systematic introduction to developmental psychology, the book is a quick, worthwhile read that gets to the point directly without being bogged down in history, disputes and the details of research design and data collection." - Buxin Han, Key Lab of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Developmental Theories 3. Research Methodology 4. Biological Psychology 5. Cognitive Psychology 6. Language and communication 7. Emotional Development 8. Moral Development 9. Social Learning 10. Developmental Psychopathology.
