Advanced Psychology: Child Development, Perspectives & Methods

by Pennington, Donald; Smithson, Richard; Mclloughlin, Julie; Robinson, Dave; Boswell, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780340859346
• ISBN10: 0340859342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-30
• Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Pubns

Summary

Advanced Psychology: Child Development, Perspectives and Methods provides students and teachers of A2 level psychology with the ideal text book covering the core topic areas of the AQA (B) A2 specification. The book is written in an accessible way and offers learning opportunities to strengthen your understanding of psychology. Each of the twelve chapters covers the topic areas of Child Development in Unit 4 and Unit 5 Perspectives, Debates and Methods in psychology. Appendices provide advice on how to write up the practical investigation for Unit 6 and guidance on assessment objectives. Full coverage is given to: Social development Behaviourist and cognitive perspectives Cognitive development Psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives Moral development The scientific approach in psychology Exceptional development Debates in psychology Each chapter provides the student and teacher with reflective and practical activities which help develop a critical understanding of psychology. Numerous empirical studies and experiments are described in the four chapters dealing with child development. Evaluative comments are provided to help you develop critical and analytic intellectual skills. The chapter covering Perspectives and Debates in psychology offer suggestions of how these may be linked to other topic areas in psychology. At the end of each chapter specimen questions, written in the AQA Specification B examination style, are provided. One question in each chapter has an answer with comments on how to improve. Advanced Psychology is the ideal text book and learning aid for the AQA Specification B A2 psychology. It also provides the interested reader with an excellent introduction to child development, and to perspectives and research methods in psychology.