Cambridge University Press, 4/18/2017EAN 9781107531826, ISBN10: 1107531829Paperback, 510 pages, 25.2 x 17.6 x 2.4 cmLanguage: EnglishDevelopmental theorists have struggled with defining the relations among biology, psychology, and sociocultural context, often reducing psychological functions of a person to either biological functioning or the role of sociocultural context - nature or nurture - and considering each area of human development separately. New Perspectives on Human Development addresses fundamental questions of development with a unified approach. It encompasses theory and research on cognitive, social and moral, and language and communicative development, in various stages of life, and explores interdisciplinary perspectives. New Perspectives on Human Development revisits old questions and applies original empirical findings, offering new directions for future research in the field.List of contributorsPreface1. Developmental processes, levels of analysis, and ways of knowingnew perspectives on human development Nancy Budwig, Elliot Turiel and Philip David ZelazoPart I. Cognitive Development2. Constructive artificial neural-network models for cognitive development Thomas R. Shultz3. Rethinking the emergence and development of racial biasa perceptual to social hypothesis Kang Lee, Paul C. Quinn and Gail Heyman4. The differentiation of executive function over developmentinsights from developmental cognitive neuroscience Nicole Bardikoff and Mark Sabbagh5. Organismic causal models 'from within' clarify developmental change and stages Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice Johnson6. Developmental evolutionrethinking stability and variation in biological systems Robert Lickliter7. NOC NOC, who's there? A new ontological category (NOC) for social robots Peter H. Kahn, Jr and Solace Shen8. Understanding the ecologies of human learning and the challenge for education science Carol D. LeePart II. Social Development9. Privilege and critical race perspectives' intersectional contributions to a systems theory of human development Margaret Beale Spencer10. Cultural neuroscience of the developing brain in adolescence Joan Chiao11. A domains-of-socialization perspective on children's social development Joan Grusec12. Gender developmenta constructivist-ecological perspective Lynn S. Liben13. Racialized learning ecologiesunderstanding race as a key feature of learning and developmental processes in school Maxine McKinney de Royston and Na'ilah Nasir14. Social intelligence in a multicultural worldwhat is it? Who needs it? How does it develop? Richard Shweder15. Development in the moral domaincoordination and the need to consider other domains of social reasoning Elliot Turiel and Matthew Gingo16. Resistance to dehumanizationa developmental process Niobe Way and Leoandra Onnie Rogers17. Mother-child conversations about children's moral wrongdoinga constructivist perspective on moral socialization Cecilia Wainryb and Holly RecchiaPart III. Language and Communicative Development18. The evolution of linguistic communicationPiagetian insights Eva Jablonka19. Scaffolding cognitive novelties in early childhoodintuitive psychology as mind designer Radu Bogdan20. Embrace complexity! Multiple factors contributing to cognitive, social and communicative development Annette Karmiloff-Smith21. The cultural basis of language and thought in development Katherine Nelson22. Children's co-construction of sentence and discourse structures in early childhoodimplications for development Amy Kyratzis23. Developing with diversity into the third decade of life and beyond Colette Daiute.