Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully than on adults, and changes over the course of development in our ancestors were primarily responsible for the species and the people we have become. This book takes an evolutionary developmental perspective, emphasizing that developmental plasticity--the ability to change our physical and psychological selves early in life--is the creative force in evolution, with natural selection serving as a filter, eliminating novel developmental outcomes that did not benefit survival. This book is about becoming--of becoming human and of becoming mature adults. Bjorklund asks, "How can an understanding of human development help us better understand human evolution?" Then, turning the relation between evolution and development on its head, Bjorklund demonstrates how an understanding of our species' evolution can help us better understand current development and how to better rear successful and emotionally healthy children.

How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bjorklund, David F.

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

The Essential Guide to Raising an Independent, Confident, and Well-adjusted Child -- From America's #1 Family Magazine. Practical with love, patience. and understanding, discipline is one of the greatest gifts you can give to a child. As this warm and insightful book makes dear, discipline is not the same as punishment, but is one of the fundamental ways that parents reach their children to respect others and themselves. Based on the latest research, and on extensive interviews with parents, the Parents: "TM" Book of Discipline will show you how to: -- Get your baby on a sleeping schedule that feels right for both of you -- Keep toddlers in line without holding them back -- Get your preschool child to perform simple chores, without nagging -- Teach your child to cooperate and share toys -- Deal with temper tantrums -- Tailor your discipline to the age, developmental progress, and temperament of your child -- Teach our child how to ask for what she wants without whining -- Make rules, set limits, and enforce them effectively -- And much more.

Parents Book of Discipline

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Ballantine Books

Study Guide for Bjorklund/Hernandez Blasi’s Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrated Approach

Hernández Blasi, Carlos

Wadsworth Publishing

Organized topically to realistically present the three overarching perspectives that guide today's researchers and practitioners of developmental psychology, David Bjorklund and Carlos Hernández-Blasi's CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT: AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH shows how the major perspectives on human development must be integrated--rather than presented as contrasting and sometimes contradictory ways of looking at development--in order to meaningfully understand infants, children, and adolescents as well as how they develop.

Cengage Advantage Books: Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrated Approach, Loose-leaf Version

Cengage Learning'

This book should be of interest to students taking courses in cognitive development in departments of psychology and education.

Children's Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.

Written for students taking courses in child and adolescent development or developmental psychology, this text presents child development in a straightforward manner that stresses the uniqueness of every child.

Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Bjorklund, Barbara R.

Social Sciences

Consistent with the direction the field of developmental psychology is heading towards (an expanded vision that gives greater attention to individual differences and cultural variation), Bjorklunds extensively revised new edition offers a unique theme: individual differences in cognition can be most profitably understood by a consideration of developmental function. Capturing the flavor and excitement of the field, Bjorklund offers several new chapters, including groundbreaking coverage of social cognition, biology, culture and cognition, and emerging theories. Rather than taking a selective approach, Bjorklund extensively summarizes theory and research, offering breadth of coverage and an empirical perspective

Children’s Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

Understandable to both undergraduate and graduate students without sacrificing depth or intellectual honesty, David F. Bjorklund's dynamic book captures the excitement and essence of cognitive development. The author summarizes theory and research, offering breadth of coverage and an empirical presepctive. And as the title, CHILDREN'S THINKING: DEVELOPMENTAL FUNCTION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, would suggest, Bjorklund offers a unique theme, showing readers how the development function can help explain individual differences in cognition. Bjorklund emphasizes the continuous interaction between a child's biological constitution (including genetics) and his or her social environment. Rather than taking a selective approach, Bjorklund extensively summarizes theory and research, offering breadth of coverage and an empirical perspective.

A comprehensive book supported by extensive research studies and data, Bjorklund's text presents the broadest coverage of topics in cognitive development. Unlike other books, Bjorklund shows readers how developmental function can help explain individual differences in cognition by covering both the typical pattern of change in thinking observed over time and the individual differences in children's thinking in infancy and childhood. A major theme of this book is the continuous transaction between the child embedded in a social world: although a child is born prepared to make some sense of the world, his or her mind is also shaped by forces in the physical and social environment.

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How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution

Parents Book of Discipline

Parents Book of Discipline

Study Guide for Bjorklund/Hernandez Blasi’s Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrated Approach

Cengage Advantage Books: Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrated Approach, Loose-leaf Version

Children's Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development

Children’s Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

Children's Thinking: Developmental Function and Individual Differences

Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences (with InfoTrac)