Subject: Developmental psychology (Keywords)

The seminal documentary 7 Up was made in 1963 to look at the way class had conditioned the attitudes and expectations of 14 English children, drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds. The same people have been revisited every 7 years since then.

The Aspects of Psychology texts are tailor made for the new style of modular teaching at A level, providing accessible texts which target particular areas of the syllabus.

What is the truth about human nature? Steven Pinker argues that our usual explanations of human behaviour - stated most clearly in the human sciences of psychology, ethics and politics - tend to deny what is now undeniable: the role of an inherited human nature.

Children's developing understanding of numbers is a topic at the intersection of cognitive-developmental psychology and education. In this book, these two perspectives are interwoven and shown to be highly complementary in child number learning.

With a broad coverage of theoretical and methodological issues, this book provides a cultural perspective on every stage of human development, demonstrating the interface between cultural psychology and developmental psychology.

Written in clear and simple language, Design for a Life offers an understanding of the science that lies behind many current controversies in parenting, education, social policy and medicine.