TY - BOOK AU - Meadows,Sara TI - Understanding child development: psychological perspectives and applications SN - 9780415788670 U1 - 155.4 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Child psychology KW - Child development N1 - 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 ER -