Abnormal Psychology
in Psychology
Published online November 2011.
Article. Subjects: psychology; cognitive psychology; developmental psychology; health psychology; history and systems in psychology; school and educational psychology; social psychology. 3121 words.
Abnormal psychology is the subdiscipline of psychology concerned with aberrant behavior—its clinical description, etiology, developmental course, assessment, and treatment. Throughout...
Academic Motivation and the Culture of School
in Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence
July 2008; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 2988 words.
This chapter concentrates on presenting the themes that emerge within each of the three divisions that organize the chapters in this volume. Firstly, the developmental and contextual aspects of...
Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and
Adolescence
July 2008; published online March 2012.
Book. Subjects: developmental psychology. 336 pages.
Decades of research indicate the important connections among academic motivation and achievement, social relationships, and school culture. However, much of this research has been conducted in...
Academic Motivation and the Culture of Schooling
in Academic Motivation and the Culture of School in Childhood and Adolescence
July 2008; published online March 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 3842 words.
While the previous chapter concentrated on the consistent themes presented in this book, this chapter focuses on examining the common threads visible in the findings about academic motivation and...
The Academic Pipeline Problem: A Local, National, and Global Dilemmaa
in Bridging Multiple Worlds
March 2011; published online May 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 3982 words.
Many societies embrace the ideals that their children will have equal access to school and advance through their merit. However, worldwide, as children move through primary and secondary school...
Acceptance and Rejection as a Source of Youth Conflict
in International Perspectives on Youth Conflict and Development
April 2006; published online April 2010.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 7609 words.
In Israel, the seven main universities are the most heterogeneous spaces for interaction between Arabs and Jews. With an Arab population of 20% attending alongside Jews, Haifa University is the most...
Access to childhood language memory: Implications for cognitive development
in Access to Language and Cognitive Development
December 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 6941 words.
This chapter examines how memories that are acquired by overhearing a second language during early childhood are tacitly retrieved in adult age and influence cognitive development. It describes a...
Access to Language and Cognitive Development
December 2011; published online January 2012.
Book. Subjects: developmental psychology. 280 pages.
One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience. To what extent, and in what ways, is a child's...
Access to language, social cognition, and lexical development in autism
in Access to Language and Cognitive Development
December 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 10670 words.
This chapter first reviews the evidence about atypical access to language in children with autism. It then examines some core aspects of their deficits in mental state attribution, communication, and...
An Account of Infants’ Physical Reasoning
in Learning and the Infant Mind
September 2008; published online September 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: developmental psychology. 20828 words.
This chapter presents an account of infants' physical reasoning. The account rests on two central claims. One is that infants' physical representations of events initially include only basic...