Developmental Reading List Fall 1999
The following reading list contains information we believe central to developmental
psychology; however, by its very nature the list is incomplete and by no means exhaustive. You
are expected to read articles, chapters, and books not on this list in preparation for your
preliminary exams. The purpose of the list is to provide a starting point for your independent
perusal of the literature in developmental psychology. Use the list to help organize your
understanding of developmental psychology; to identify important themes in the field; and to
locate other articles, chapters and books.
General Texts
Baldwin, A. (1967). Theories of development. New York: Wiley.
Bandura, A. (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social-cognitive theory.
Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall.
Bornstein, M. H., & Lamb, M. E. (1988). Developmental psychology: An advanced textbook
2nd ed. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Bornstein, M. H., & Lamb, M. E. (1992). Development in infancy: An introduction. 3rd ed.
New York: McGraw-Hill
Grusec, J. E., & Lytton, H. (1988). Social development: History, theory and research. NY:
Springer-Verlag.
Siegler, R. (1991). Children's thinking (2nd edition). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Plomin, R. (1986). Development, genetics and psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Van Hasselt, V., & Hensen, M. (1992). Handbook of Social Development: A Life-span
Perspective. New York: Plenum.
Developmental Theory and Philosophy of Science
Baltes, P. B., Reese, H. W., & Lipsett, L. P. (1980). Life-span Developmental Psychology.
Annual Review of Psychology, 31, 65-110.
Baltes, P. (1987). Theoretical propositions of lifespan developmental psychology: On the
dynamics between growth and decline. Developmental Psych., 23, 611-626.
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Flavell, J. (1972). The analysis of cognitive developmental sequences. Genetic Psychology
Monographs, 86, 279-350.
LaRossa, R., & Reitzes, D. (1993). Symbolic interactionism and family studies. In P. Boss, W.
Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schumm, & S. Steinmetz (Eds.), Sourcebook of family theories and
methods: A contextual approach (pp. 135-163). New York: Plenum.
Lerner, R. M. (1986). Concepts and theories in human development (2nd Ed.). New York:
Random House.
Reese, H., & Overton, W. (1970). Models of development and theories of development. In L.
Goulet and P. Baltes (Eds.), Life-span developmental psychology: Research and theory.
N.Y.: Academic Press.
Scarr, S., & McCartny, K. (1983). How people make their own environments: A theory of
genotype -----> environment effects. Child Development, 54, 424-435.
Wohlwill, J. (1970). The age variable in psychological research. Psychological Review, 77, 4964.
Methodology and Design
Baltes, P. B., Reese, H. W., & Nesselroade, J. R. (1988). Introduction to Research Methods:
Lifespan Developmental Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Bronfenbrenner, U. (1977). Toward an experimental ecology of human development. American
Psychologist, 32, 513-531.
Cummings, E. M. (1995). Usefulness of experiments for the study of the family. Journal of
Family Psychology, 9, 175-185.
McCall, R. (1977). Challenges to a science of developmental psychology. Child Development,
48, 333-344.
Schaie, K. (1986). Beyond calendar definitions of age, time, and cohort: The general
developmental model revisited. Developmental Review, 6, 252-278.
Schaie, K., & Baltes, P. (1975). On sequential strategies in developmental research: Description
or explanation. Human Development, 18, 384-390.
Cognitive and Intellectual Development
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Brainerd, C. (1978). The stage question in cognitive-developmental theory. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 2, 173-213 (with peer commentary).
Fischer, K. (1980). A theory of cognitive development: The control and construction of
hierarchies of skills. Psychological Review, 87, 477-531.
Gopnik, A., & Wellman, H.M. (1994). The theory theory. In Gelman & Hirschfed (Eds.),
Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture (pp. 257-293). New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Halford, G. S. (1989). Reflections on 25 years of Piagetian cognitive developmental psychology,
1963-1988. Human Development, 32, 325-357.
Karl, R., & Salthouse, T. A. (1994). Processing speed as mental capacity. Acta Psychologica,
86, 199-225.
Piaget, J. (1970). Piaget's theory. In P. Mussen, Carmichael's manual of child psychology.
N.Y.: Wiley.
Siegler, R. S. (1989). Mechanisms of cognitive development. Annual Review of Psychology,
40, 353-379.
Siegler, R. S. (1995). Children’s thinking: How does change occur? In F. E. Weinert & W.
Schneider (Eds.), Memory performance and competencies: Issues in growth and
development. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Wellman, H. M., & Gelman, S. A. (1992). Cognitive development: Foundational theories of
core domains. Annual Review of Psychology, 43, 337-375.
Wertsch, J. V. (1985). Vygotsky and the social formation of mind. Especially chapters 1, 2, 3,
and 8. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.
Social-Emotional and Social-Cognitive Development
Baumrind, D. (1971). Current patterns of parental authority. Developmental Psychology
Monographs, 4, (1, Part 2).
Belsky, J. (1984). The determinants of parenting: A process model. Child Development, 55,
83-96.
Bretherton, I., & Waters, E. (1985). Growing points of attachment theory and research. SRCD
Monographs, Serial #209, Vol. 50, Nos. 1-2.
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Campos, J., Barrett, K., Lamb, M., Goldsmith, H., & Sternberg, C. (1983). Socio-emotional
development. In M. Haith, & J. Campos (Eds.), P. H. Mussen (Series Ed.), Handbook of
child psychology: Vol. 2. Infancy and developmental psychobiology (pp. 783-915). New
York: Wiley.
Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T. (1991). Individual differences ar accentuated during periods of social
change: The sample case of girls at puberty. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
61, 157-168.
Cicchetti, D., & Cohen, D. J. (1995). Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology. In D.
Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology (pp. 3-20). New York: John
Wiley and Sons.
Cummings, E. M., & Davies, P. (1996). Emotional security as a regulatory process in normal
development and the development of psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology,
8, 123-139.
Dunn, J. (1993). Young children’s close relationships. Newbury Park: Sage.
Kohlberg, L. (1969). Stage and sequence: The cognitive-developmental approach to
socialization. In D. Goslin (Ed.), Handbook of socialization theory and research. NY: Rand
McNally.
Kopp, C. B. (1982). Antecedents of self-regulation: A developmental perspective.
Developmental Psychology. 18, 129, 199-214.
Masten, A., Best, K., & Garmezy, N. (1990). Resilience and development: Contributions from
the study of children who overcame adversity. Development and Psychopathology, 2, 425444.
Rutter, M. (1984). Continuities and discontinuities in socioemotional development: empirical
and conceptual perspectives. In R. Ende & R. Harmon (Eds.), Continuities and
discontinuities in development (pp. 41-68). New York: Plenum Press.
Sroufe, L. A., & Rutter, M. (1984). The domain of developmental psychopathology. Child
Development, 55, 17-29.
Development Across the Life-Span and Aging
Baltes, P. B., & Baltes, M. M. (1993). Psychological perspectives on successful aging: A model
of selective optimization with compensation. In P. B. Baltes and M. M. Baltes (Eds.)
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Successful Aging: Perspective from the Behavioral Science (pp. 1-34). New York:
Cambridge.
Baltes, M., & Silverberg, S. (1994). The dynamics between dependency and autonomy:
illustrations across the lifespan. In D. Featherman, R. Lerner, & M. Perlmutter (Eds.), Lifespan development and behavior (pp. 41-90). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Levinson, D. J. (1986). A conception of adult development. American Psychologist, 41, 3-13.
Rybash, J. M., Hoyer, W. J. & Roodin, P. A. (1986). Adult Cognition and Aging. New York:
Pergamon.
Exceptional Development
Butterfield, E. C., & Ferretti, R. P. (1987). Toward a theoretical integration of cognitive
hypotheses about intellectual differences among children. In J. Borkowski and J. Day (Eds.),
Cognition in special children (pp. 195-233). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Sternberg, R. (1987). A unified theory of intellectual exceptionality. In J. Day and J. Borkowski
(eds.), Intelligence and exceptionality (pp. 135-172). Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
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