This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of what is now known about psychological development, from birth to biological maturity, and it highlights how cultural, social, cognitive, neural, and molecular processes work together to yield human behavior and changes in human behavior.

1. Developmental Psychology: A New Synthesis ; Philip David Zelazo ; 2. History of Research in Developmental Psychology ; W. Andrew Collins and Willard W. Hartup ; 3. Research Design and Methods: Towards a Cumulative Developmental Science ; J. Steven Reznick ; 4. Biological Development: Theoretical Approaches, Techniques, and Key Findings ; Robert Lickliter ; 5. Behavioral Genetics, Genetics, and Epigenetics ; David Moore ; 6. Postnatal Brain Development ; Julie C. Markant and Kathleen M. Thomas ; 7. Sex and Sex Differences ; Melissa Hines ; 8. Sensitive Periods in Visual Development ; Daphne Maurer and Terri L. Lewis ; 9. Perceptual-motor Relations in Obvious and Non-obvious Domains: A History and Review ; Mark A. Schmuckler ; 10. Visual Development ; Janette Atkinson and Oliver Braddick ; 11. Auditory and Musical Development ; Laurel J Trainor and Chao He ; 12. Development of Face Processing Ability in Childhood ; Kang Lee, Paul C. Quinn, Olivier Pascalis, and Alan Slater ; 13. Object Perception ; Scott P. Johnson ; 14. The Development of Reaching Actions ; Geert Savelsbergh, John van der Kamp, and Margot van Wersmerskerken ; 15. The Road to Walking: What Learning to Walk Tells Us About Development ; Karen E. Adolph and Scott Robinson ; 16. Cognitive Development: On Overview ; David F. Bjorklund ; 17. Computational Models in Developmental Psychology ; Thomas R. Shultz ; 18. Memory ; Patricia J. Bauer ; 19. Concepts in Development ; Susan A. Gelman ; 20. Spatial Development ; Nora S. Newcombe, David H. Uttal, and Megan Sauter ; 21. Categorization ; David H. Rakison and Chris A. Lawson ; 22. Causality ; Alison Gopnik ; 23. Imitation: Social, Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives ; Andrew N. Meltzoff and Rebecca A. Williamson ; 24. Development of Attentional Networks ; M. Rosario Rueda and Michael I. Posner ; 25. Executive Function ; Stephanie M. Carlson, Philip David Zelazo, and Susan Faja ; 26. Reasoning ; Deanna Kuhn ; 27. The History of Intelligence: New Spectacles for Developmental Psychology ; James R. Flynn and Clancy Blair ; 28. Imagination ; Marjorie Taylor ; 29. Moral Development: The Social Domain Theory View ; Judith G. Smetana ; 30. From Coo to Code: A Brief Story of Language Development ; Julia Parish-Morris, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek ; 31. Speech Perception in Infancy: A Foundation for Language Acquisition ; Janet F. Werker and Judit Gervain ; 32. Syntax Acquisition ; Jill de Villiers and Peter de Villiers ; 33. Gesture's Role in Learning and Development ; Susan Goldin-Meadow and Martha W. Alibali ; 34. Symbols and Symbolic Thought ; Tara Callaghan

Selling point: Represents a paradigm shift in psychological science, providing a vibrant map of the field of developmental psychology Selling point: Multidisciplinary take on developmental psychology, from leading scholars in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and cognition Selling point: Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY series

Selling point: Represents a paradigm shift in psychological science, providing a vibrant map of the field of developmental psychology Selling point: Multidisciplinary take on developmental psychology, from leading scholars in developmental psychology, neuroscience, and cognition Selling point: Part of THE OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY series