Developmental Psychology

Last Updated: 18-Jan-2013

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"Developmental psychology investigates how the human mind develops throughout the lifespan. Observations and experiments with infants, children, teenagers and adults enable us to identify meaningful changes and the origins of mental processes, providing us with insight into the experience of various age groups as well as into the differences between individuals." (SU Dept. of Psychology)

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Developmental psychology

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Journals

Overviews

Encyclopedias and handbooks

Encyclopedia of child behavior and development [electronic resource] / Sam Goldstein, Jack A. Naglieri, Editors.

[New York] : Springer, c2011.

Encyclopedia of infant and early childhood development [electronic resource] / editors-in-chief, Marshall M. Haith and Janette B. Benson.

[1st ed.] [S.l.] : ScienceDirect, c2008.

Handbook of adolescent psychology / edited by Richard M. Lerner, Laurence Steinberg.

3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » BF724 .H33 2009 V.1

Encyclopedia of human development / Neil J. Salkind, editor.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.

Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » HM626 .E53 2006 V.1

Encyclopedia of education and human development / Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, editors ; foreword by James H. Borland.

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.

Cubberley » Reference (Non-circulating) » LB15 .E473 2005 V.1

"This comprehensive and exhaustive reference work on the subject of education from the primary grades through higher education combines educational theory with practice…"

A comprehensive guide to intellectual & developmental disabilities / edited by Ivan Brown and Maire Percy.

Baltimore, Md. : Paul H. Brookes, c2007.

Cubberley » Reference (Non-circulating) » HV1570 .C66 2007

"This comprehensive volume addresses developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities across the lifespan."

International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences / editors-in-chief Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes.

1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.

Green » Social Sciences Resource Center (Non-circulating) » H41 .I58 2001 V.1

"This Encyclopedia is the first attempt in a generation to map the social and behavioral sciences on a grand scale."

Databases

Psychology Databases

PsycINFO [electronic resource].

[Bethesda, Md.] : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines.

PsycARTICLES [electronic resource].

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association,

Provides full text access to articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

PsycCritiques [electronic resource].

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association

PsycTESTS [electronic resource].

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association.

Related Databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.

[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-

Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.

Education full text [electronic resource].

[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.

Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.

Linguistics and language behavior abstracts : LLBA.

La Jolla, Calif. : Sociological Abstracts, Inc., 1985- 2004.

SAL3 » Stacks » P1 .L26 V.27 PT.2 1993

Health and psychosocial instruments [electronic resource].

New York, N.Y. : Ovid Technologies [distributor, 19--]-

A database designed to help identify measurement tests used in health, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science; provides sources, abstract, and reviewer(s) when applicable.

"Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."

Websites

Center for Infant Studies

"The Center for Infant Studies is a consortium of three research groups in the Stanford Psychology Department, each working to answer many different questions about infant and child development. We study how children learn to see, listen, talk and understand the world around them."

Mind, Brain and Computation: A Center for Research at Stanford

"The Center is dedicated to understanding how mental functions such as perceiving, understanding, thinking, feeling, and decision-making arise from neural processes in the brain."

Parallel Distributed Processing Lab

"We study all aspects of human cognition through behavioral and neuroscience experiments and neural network modelling."

Stanford Center on Adolescence

"The Center's research agenda examines issues of adolescent learning, identity, and character formation in an array of settings found in modern society."

Stanford Learning Lab