TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harris, Margaret
AU  - Harris,Margaret
TI  - Exploring Developmental Psychology:  Understanding Theory and Methods
SN  - 9781412903349
U1  - O40 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage Publications, Inc
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The Nature of Development .................1  Transformational and Variational Change ...............2  A developmental Systems perspective .............3  The epigenetic landscape and Beyond ..............4  Are there stages in Development ........8  Linear and non-Linear Change ..........9  Information processing approaches ............10  Training studies ...........14  Variation across tasks ..........15  Investigating developmental change......16  2. Exploring development .......18  Task Simplification ......18  Reliability and Validity ..........20  Longitudinal Designs and Individual Differences .....23  The Microgenetic Method........24  Ethical Issues in Developmental Psychology Research.......26  Evaluating research Studies .........27  3. Observational Method and Questionnaires ......29  Observing Behaviour ........29  Field Observation ..........30  Observation in a Controlled Environment .......31  Longitudinal Observation in a Controlled Environment ............51  4. Experimental Research with infants and Toddlers .....113  The habituation /dishabituation paradigm ........114  Intermodal Preferential Looking ..........125  Visual Fixations to Targents ........146  5. Experimental Studies of Older Children ........179  Cross Sectional Studies ...........179  6. Exploring Atypical Development ........250
ER  -