Developmental Psychology

How do children become the people they are? Developmental Psychology: A Social, Communicative, and Cultural Approach helps you explore how children think, communicate, feel and make sense of the world around them. Moving beyond simple nature–nurture debates, it shows development as an active, embodied and deeply social process shaped by children’s everyday interactions with people, cultures and environments.

With case studies, key studies and reflective questions throughout, each chapter helps you apply ideas, think critically and connect theory to real-world examples. Key terms, chapter summaries, end-of-chapter questions and further reading also support your understanding, revision and independent study.

Accessible, multidisciplinary and thought-provoking, this textbook gives you the tools to understand developmental psychology in context and to see how research connects with the changing social and cultural worlds we all share.