Stephen von Tetzchner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Chapter 1: Developmental psychology

Chapter 2: Theoretical perspectives

Chapter 3: Methods of gaining knowledge about children

Chapter 4: Child and adolescent disorders

Chapter 5: Genes, evolution, heredity and environment

Chapter 6: Stimulation and activity during fetal development

Chapter 7: Brain development

Chapter 8: Perceptual development

Chapter 9: Motor development

Chapter 10: Theories of cognitive development

Chapter 11: Attention, memory and executive function

Chapter 12: Conceptual development and reasoning

Chapter 13: Mind understanding

Chapter 14: Intelligence

Chapter 15: Learning and instruction

Chapter 16: The development of communication and language

Chapter 17: Emotions and emotion regulation

Chapter 18: Temperament and personality

Chapter 19: Attachment

Chapter 20: Sibling and peer relations

Chapter 21: Self and identity

Chapter 22: Moral development

Chapter 23 Prosocial and antisocial development

Chapter 24: Gender development

Chapter 25: Play

Chapter 26: Media and understanding of society

Chapter 27: Toward adulthood

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