A Piaget PrimerPreface
Preface to the Revised Edition
1. Jean Piaget and His Theory
2. The Stages of a Child's Development
3. How Intelligence Develops
4. Playing and Imitating
5. How Language Develops
6. Discovering Space, Time, and Numbers
7. Learning About Right and Wrong
8. Beyond Piaget: Using His Theory for Teaching, Learning, and
Parenting
Glossary
References
Index
DOROTHY SINGER is a retired senior research scientist in the
Department of Psychology at Yale University, as well as
co-director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family
Television Research and Consultation Center, affiliated with the
Zigler Center for Child Development and Public Policy. She is a
Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research and
publications are in the area of early childhood development,
television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative
play. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers
College at Columbia University and the Award for Distinguished
Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology from the American
Psychological Association.
Trained as one of the first generation of health psychologists,
TRACEY REVENSON brings a social-ecological perspective to the study
of how stress and coping processes affect psychological adjustment
to chronic physical illness, and how these processes are influenced
by the social context. She is the co-author or co-editor of nine
volumes, including Couples Coping with Stress and the Handbook of
Health Psychology, now in its second edition. She is an associate
editor of the journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine and is on
the editorial board of the journal Health Psychology. She was the
founding editor-in-chief of the journal Women’s Health: Gender,
Behavior and Policy. Dr. Revenson is a past-president of the
Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological
Association and in 2013 was awarded the Nathan Perry Career Service
Award in Health Psychology for her contributions to the advancement
of health psychology as a field, nationally and internationally.
“An accessible guide to Piaget's thinking on playing and imitating; language development; discovering space, time and numbers; and learning about right and wrong.”—Jon Anderson, Chicago Tribune
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