Advances in Child Development and Behavior [Hardcover]

Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles and a place for the publication of scholarly speculation. In these documented critical reviews, recent advances in the field are summarized and integrated, complexities are exposed, and fresh viewpoints are offered. The serial should be useful to experts it the area as well as graduate students. Each volume of Advances in Child Development and Behavior contains an index, and each chapter includes references.S.E. Trehub, L.J. Trainor and A.M. Unyk, Music and Speech Processing in the First Year of Life.
J. Worobey, Effects of Feeding Method on Infant Temperament.
L.S. Siegel, The Development of Reading.
J.P. Rack, C. Hulme and M.J. Snowling, Learning to Read: A Theoretical Synthesis.
K.E. Stanovich, Does Reading Make You Smarter? Literacy and the Development of Verbal Intelligence.
M.E. Wagner, H.J.P. Schubert and D.S.P. Schubert, Sex-of-Sibling Effects:
Part I. Gender Role, Intelligence, Achievement and Creativity.
L.B. Smith, The Concept of Same.
J. Baker-Sennett, E. Matusov and B. Rogoff, Planning as Developmental Process.
Author Index.
Subject Index.Praise for the Serial
As in other fields of psychology, the growth of new knowledge and research findings about children's development seems to increase exponentially from year to year. In the lossing battle to keep track of all of the new findings, it is particularly valuable to have outlets like the Advances series, in which leading scholars present 'novell<