Psychology Express: Developmental Psychology, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (May 13, 2025) © 2025

  • Penney Upton University of Canberra
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Discover the ultimate revision guide for psychology students to help you excel in your assessments!

Psychology Express: Developmental Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to plan, prepare and practice for all your undergraduate assessments in this subject.

The guide covers all core concepts you need to know in accordance with QAA and BPS subject guidelines, following human development over lifespan, with focus on topics such as language, identity, moral and cognitive development. It provides a framework for success through features such as topic maps, revision checklists, key terms, summaries of key studies and further reading suggestions.

To make your revision even more effective you can assess your progress with test questions, compare your answers with answer guidelines and evaluate sample answers to improve your own assessment technique.

This revision guide is part of the Psychology Express series, covering the complete knowledge base of psychology, designed to complement your lectures, seminars, and additional reading to make sure that you are confident going in to all of your assessments. Preparing for different types of assessments can be challenging, but this guide will give you all of the tools you need to succeed in your assignments. Whether you're facing exams, research papers, presentations, or group projects, you'll find valuable tips and strategies to excel.

To support your learning journey, a companion website provides additional resources for self-testing and answers to questions in the book.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Guided tour

Chapter 1: Themes, theories and key figures in developmental psychology

Chapter 2: Prenatal development

Chapter 3: Motor, sensory and perceptual development

Chapter 4: Attachment and relationship formation

Chapter 5: Language development

Chapter 6: Play

Chapter 7: Cognitive development

Chapter 8: Moral development

Chapter 9: The self, gender and identity development

Chapter 10: Adulthood

Chapter 11: Death, dying and bereavement

Glossary of terms

References

Index

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