Accuracy and Specificity of Autobiographical Memory in Childhood Trauma Victims
in Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory Development
April 2008; published online May 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 12659 words.
This chapter examines the claim that childhood trauma leads to a specific type of autobiographical memory functioning, namely “overgeneral memory”. It reviews scientific theory and research on...
Achieving Efficient Learning
in Deaf Cognition
July 2008; published online September 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 13676 words.
Theory of Mind (ToM), originally defined as the ability to consider the human mind as a generator of representations, is a cornerstone in social interactions because it corresponds to developing an...
Achieving Equity in Secondary and Tertiary Education for Students with Disabilities and Learning Difficulties
in Lessons in Educational Equality
February 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 7592 words.
If Education for All is to be achieved, children and students with disabilities and learning and behaviour difficulties must be given the necessary support. This chapter discusses equity in secondary...
Achieving Quality Primary Education for the Poor Through State–NGO Partnerships
in Lessons in Educational Equality
February 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 15912 words.
International efforts to increase equity, quality and access in primary education increasingly include calls to expand governance and educational resources by fostering partnerships between...
Acquiring a Visually Motivated Language: Evidence From Diverse Learners
in Advances in the Sign-Language Development of Deaf Children
October 2005; published online April 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 13368 words.
This chapter explores the acquisition of visual, iconically motivated languages from several different perspectives. First, it describes the development of verb agreement, classifiers, and discourse...
Acquiring Conventional Skills
in Quantitative Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
April 2002; published online April 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 10441 words.
Learning to count is a major turning point in quantitative development. Not surprisingly, there is a large literature on the milestones in acquisition of conventional counting skills. This chapter...
Acquisition of Syntax in Signed Languages
in Advances in the Sign-Language Development of Deaf Children
October 2005; published online April 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 12858 words.
This chapter examines the acquisition of two aspects of sign language morphosyntax: verb agreement and word order. For each of these areas, it asks whether the theories developed on the basis of...
Action and emotion in development of cultural intelligence: why infants have feelings like ours
in Emotional Development:
December 2004; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 12450 words.
This chapter introduces the argument that emotions are proactive in the human mind. It suggests that the evolution of the social functions of emotions and inter-subjective behaviours in infancy lead...
Action Meets Word
April 2006; published online April 2010.
Book. Subjects: developmental psychology. 588 pages.
Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of...
Actions Organize the Infant’s World
in Action Meets Word
April 2006; published online April 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 11542 words.
This chapter begins by discussing how infants begin to interpret events and how they represent different kinds of actions. These interpretations tend to be global in nature, with details only...