Revised edition of the author's Understanding child development, 1986.
Preface -- Introducing the study of child development -- Biological bases of child development : evolution and genes -- Biological bases of child development : brain development -- Big developmental theories : Piaget, information-processing, Vygotsky : image: anne and the balloon -- The development of cognitive skills -- Language development -- Cognition and education -- Personality, emotion regulation, and an introduction to developmental psychopathology -- Social relationships and the family -- Peers and the child as social person -- Play -- Key terms.