Developmental Psychology and You, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-631-23389-3
Hardcover
360 pages
December 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Pamela K Smythehas been a researcher in the School of
Psychology at Leicester University for the last decade. During this
time she has also taught psychology at a number of levels, ranging
from undergraduates and medical students to post-graduate and adult
education students. Her teaching areas include developmental
psychology, laterality, introductory statistics, health psychology
and general psychology. Both here first degree and her Ph.D. were
completed at Leicester University with the latter concerning
aspects of phonological processing and handedness. Research
interests and publications involve laterality of hand and brain,
the processing of speech sounds and dyslexia.
Ann Taylor was educated in Suffolk and at the University
of London, and has spent most of her working life at the University
of Leicester, finishing her full-time career as Senior Lecturer and
Head of Department. Principal teaching and research interests have
been in cognitive psychology, language development and in
particular the study of adult development and ageing. She has
extensive teaching experience at all undergraduate levels and with
students of all adult ages, and has co-authored a number of
textbooks, both introductory and advanced. Early retirement has
given her more time for writing, teaching and library research,
other employment, charity work of various kinds, indulgence of her
passions for music and the theatre (as performer and spectator) and
family life.
Alexandra Lamont is currently a Lecturer in Psychology of
Music at the Psychology Department at Keele University. She teaches
across a broad range of different topics including musical
development and education, music perception, and perceptual and
cognitive development. She also teaches for the Open University as
an associate lecturer on a Masters course in Child Development in
Families, Schools and Society. She was formerly a lecturer in
developmental psychology at the University of Leicester. Her
research includes studies of infants' musical preferences and
musical memories, children's cognitive understanding of music,
music in the school curriculum, the effects of musical training and
experience on children's development, and the ways that adults with
different musical backgrounds listen to music in different
styles.
Richard Joiner is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bath. Formerly he was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Human Development and Learning at the Open University. He taught developmental psychology previously at Leicester University and the University of Hertfordshire to both undergraduates and post-graduates. He was also an associate lecturer at the Open University, where he taught child development to undergraduates. He is interested in children's use of communication technology. He is co-editor of ‘Rethinking collaborative learning'.