Child Development, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition) - Hardcover

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Laura E. Berk is a distinguished professor of psychology at Illinois State University, where she has taught child and human development to both undergraduate and graduate students for more than three decades. She has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, UCLA, Stanford University, and the University of South Australia.

Berk has published widely on the effects of school environments on children’s development, the development of private speech, and most recently, the role of make-believe play in development, and her research has appeared in many prominent journals.

She is a frequent contributor to edited volumes on early childhood development, and she is active in work for children’s causes. In addition to service in her home community, she is a member of the national board of directors of Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization that provides early literacy intervention to thousands of low-income preschoolers across the United States, using college and university students as interveners.

William Roberts received his bachelor’s degree from Reed College (in philosophy) and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Simon Fraser University (in physiological psychology and child development, respectively). He taught at Mt. St. Vincent University in Halifax and York University in Toronto before joining the faculty at Thompson Rivers University. He has  served on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science for the past eight years, and has also reviewed for journals in the United States, Europe, and Australia. He has authored public domain software for recording and analyzing children’s behaviour in natural settings–software that has been used by psychologists, educators, and biologists. Among his articles are "Parents’ Responses to the Emotional Distress of Their Children," "Empathy, Emotional Expressiveness, and Prosocial Behavior" (both with Janet Strayer), and "Observations of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Children on the School Playground"(with Debra Pepler and Wendy Craig). More information is available at www.tru.ca/faculty/wlroberts.