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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

  • 1st Edition, Volume 69 - September 8, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Jeffrey J. Lockman
  • Language: English

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 69, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely update… Read more

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Description

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 69, the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology, includes a variety of timely updates, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include Autonomic and Attentional Pathways in the Emergence of Autism: Bridging Mechanisms and Real-World Contexts in Infancy, The Sound-of-Words model: a developmental perspective of phonolexical acquisition, The Development of Children's Beliefs about Ability, and Assessing Children’s Spatial Thinking: Insights, Challenges, and Implications,

Key features

  • Contains chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the areas of child development and behavior
  • Presents a high-quality and wide range of topics covered by well-known professionals
  • Includes content on Autonomic and Attentional Pathways in the Emergence of Autism: Bridging Mechanisms and Real-World Contexts in Infancy, and more

Readership

Professionals, graduate students and advanced undergraduates in developmental psychology and related fields (e.g., clinical psychology, education, nursing, social work, early childhood education, child policy)

Table of contents

1. Autonomic and Attentional Pathways in the Emergence of Autism: Bridging Mechanisms and Real-World Contexts in Infancy

2. The Sound-of-Words model: a developmental perspective of phonolexical acquisition

3. The Development of Children's Beliefs about Ability

4. Assessing Children’s Spatial Thinking: Insights, Challenges, and Implications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 69
  • Published: September 29, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editor

JL

Jeffrey J. Lockman

Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman got his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. His research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. In his recent work, he has been studying the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Additionally, he has been conducting work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

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