Children and Youth: Psychosocial Development.

Psychosocial development is the focus of this psychology textbook. In part 1, a view of human development and society, the following areas are covered: (1) basic concepts of psychosocial development; (2) ways of viewing human development; and (3) dilemmas in human development. Part 2, the development of symbolic behavior and special factors in cognition, covers: (1) language development; (2) intelligence; and (3) special factors--attention, perception, intentional learning and incidental learning, expectancies, cognitive style, curiosity, and creativity. Part 3, social and personal development, covers: (1) psychosexual development; (2) moral and political development and behavior; (3) children, youth, and their peers; (4) areas of psychosocial conflict; (5) the development of self; and (6) human development and the schools: some contemporary problems. Statistical and measurement considerations are discussed in an appendix. (KM)