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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger re…
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- 978-3-031-41271-4
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- XII, 108
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On the Power and Limits of Empathy
This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a strong, reasoned and accurate description of the phenomenon of empathy in order to capture the essence of the empathic phenomenon and clearly distinguish it from other similar emotional phenomena such as sympathy or compassion The second part focuse…
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- 978-3-031-37521-7
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- XIV, 374
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A Dynamic systems approach to development: Applications
"A Bradford book."AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585038678
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :illustrations.
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The social brain :a developmental perspective
"This new volume brings together a range of empirical and theoretical views from both developmental psychology and developmental neuroscience, and cover a core set of questions and topics that concern the development of the social mind. The basic topics about the origins, development, and biological bases of the human social mind include, but are not limited to, face and voice recognition, atta…
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- 0262358964
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- 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Computational Developmental Psychology
"A Bradford book."An overview of the emerging discipline of computational developmental psychology, emphasizing the use of constructivist neural networks.Despite decades of scientific research, the core issues of child development remain too complex to be explained by traditional verbal theories. These issues include structure and transition, representation and processing, innate and experienti…
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- 9780262303033
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- 1 online resource (338 pages)
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The working mind :meaning and mental attention in human development
"A magnum opus from one of Piaget's most important students. This books seeks to synthesize Piaget's psychology with findings in modern neuroscience to explain cognitive development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363089
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- 1 online resource.
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Plasticity of development
Revised papers presented at a series of lectures, during the 1986-87 academic year. Organized by the Program for Developmental Research, University of Maryland, College Park."A Bradford book."Errata slip inserted.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262269193
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages) :illustrations
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The Cultural Nature of Attachment: Contextualizing Relationships and Development
Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342872
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- 1 online resource (xi, 429 pages).
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Embodied Social Cognition
This book clarifies the role and relevance of the body in social interaction and cognition from an embodied cognitive science perspective. Theories of embodied cognition have during the last decades offered a radical shift in explanations of the human mind, from traditional computationalism, to emphasizing the way cognition is shaped by the body and its sensorimotor interaction with the surroun…
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- 978-3-319-20315-7
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
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Methods in mind
Experts discuss the wide variety of investigative tools available to cognitive neuroscience, including transcranial magnetic stimulation, neuroscience computation, fMRI, imaging genetics, and neuropharmacology, with particular emphasis on convergence of t.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283410
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- 1 online resource (ix, 382 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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