Research Catalog

Title

The child's environment / edited by Christopher Spencer.

Publication

London ; San Diego : Academic Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Spencer, C. P.

Description

viii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• Since its inception, the Journal of Environmental Psychology has demonstrated its pre-eminence through publishing original, innovative papers. By bringing them together in one volume, ready access has been provided to the first-hand accounts of a range of explorations that are central to the growth and development of environmental psychology itself.
• This volume of papers drawn from the journal brings together a number of studies that explore children's knowledge and experience of the environment. By bringing together these papers with an introduction from their editor, Christopher Spencer, the reader is provided with a valuable overview of some of the most significant studies in this important area of environmental psychology.
• This book will be of value to everyone who wishes to enhance their knowledge of children's experiences of the places in which they live. People who have not looked at environmental psychological studies before will find it a useful introduction to that growing field. For those who know environmental psychology and the Journal of Environmental Psychology, it will provide a valuable compendium of key papers that have laid the basis for future research into children and their environment.

Series Statement

Readings in environmental psychology

Uniform Title

• Journal of environmental psychology.
• Readings in environmental psychology.

Subject

• Cognition in children
• Cognition in infants
• Child development
• Spatial behavior
• Space perception in children
• Cognition > Child
• Spatial Behavior > Child
• Spatial Behavior > Adolescent
• Space Perception > Child
• Environment
• Child Development

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Note

• Papers previously published in the Journal of environmental psychology.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / D. Canter -- Introduction - the child's environment: a challenge for psychologists and planners alike / C. Spencer -- The case for developing cognitive environmental psychology that does not underestimate the abilities of young children / C. Spencer and Z. Darvizeh -- Pointing to preschool children's spatial competence: a study in natural settings / A. M. Conning and R. W. Byrne -- A conceptual model and empirical analysis of children's acquisition of spatial knowledge / R. Golledge, T. R. Smith, J. W. Pellegrino, S. Doherty and S. P. Marshall -- The acquisition and integration of route knowledge in an unfamiliar neighbourhood / N. Gale, R. G. Golledge, J. W. Pellegrino and S. Doherty -- The development of route knowledge: multiple dimensions? / G. Waller -- Young children's representations of the environment: a comparison of techniques / M. H. Matthews -- Developmental differences in the ability to give route directions from a map / M. Blades and L. Medlicott --
• Janine Eber maps London: individual dimensions of cognitive imagery / D. Wood and R. Beck -- Sex differences in home range and cognitive maps in eight-year old children / P. Webley -- Children's spatial representation of their neighbourhood: a step towards a general spatial competence / A. Biel -- Urban early adolescents, crowding and the neighbourhood experience: a preliminary investigation / F. J. van Staden -- The emergence of adolescent territories in a large urban leisure environment / J. L. Cotterell -- Children's landscape preferences: from rejection to attraction / F. G. Bernaldez, D. Gallardo and R. P. Abello -- Privacy-seeking behavior in an elementary classroom / C. S. Weinstein -- Educational issues, school settings, and environmental psychology / L. G. Rivlin and C. S. Weinstein -- The transition from home to boarding school: a diary-style analysis of the problems and worries of boarding school pupils / S. Fisher, N. Frazer and K. Murray --
• Homesickness and health in boarding school children / S. Fisher, N. Frazer and K. Murray -- Representation of familiar places in children and adults: verbal reports as a method of studying environmental knowledge / G. Axia, M. R. Baroni and E. M. Peron.

ISBN

0126566402 (alk. paper)

OCLC

• 32860695
• ocm32860695

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries