Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Publisher's Acknowledgements -- 1 The Nature of Development -- Transformational and variational change -- A developmental systems perspective -- The epigenetic landscape and beyond -- Are there stages in development? -- Linear and non-linear change -- Information processing approaches -- Training studies -- Variation across tasks -- Investigating developmental change -- 2 Exploring Development -- Task simplification -- Reliability and validity -- Longitudinal designs and individual differences -- The microgenetic method -- Ethical issues in developmental psychology research -- Evaluating research studies -- 3 Observational Methods and Questionnaires -- Observing behaviour -- Field observation -- Observation in a controlled environment -- Paper 1 Assessing disruptive behaviour in young children -- Longitudinal observation in a controlled environment -- Paper 2 Effects of mother's postnatal depression on infant development -- Paper 3 Predictors of Theory of Mind understanding -- Questionnaires -- Paper 4 Sex differences in reactions to outperforming friends -- 4 Experimental Research with Infants and Toddlers -- The habituation/dishabituation paradigm -- Paper 5 Infants' perceptions of four different languages -- Intermodal preferential looking -- Paper 6 Young children's ability to detect mispronunciations of words -- Visual fixations to targets -- Paper 7 Joint visual attention in mothers and infants -- 5 Experimental Studies of Older Children -- Cross sectional studies -- Paper 8 Children's understanding of other people's emotions -- Paper 9 Preschoolers' understanding of number -- Longitudinal studies -- Paper 10 Longitudinal predictors of success in learning to read -- 6 Exploring Atypical Development.

Paper 11 Differences between children with good and poor reading comprehension -- Paper 12 Understanding Theory of Mind tasks by deaf and hearing children -- Paper 13 Face processing in children with Williams Syndrome -- References -- Index.