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Section I Developmental and Educational Practice -- Assessment of Sensory and Behavioral Functions in Infancy -- Growing Up Social -- Memory Strategies in Learning: Training Children to Study Strategically -- Televised Aggression and Prosocial Behavior -- Application of Basic Research in Reading -- Section II Psychological Practice and Social Problems -- Attitude Change -- Decision Counseling: Theory, Research, and Perspectives for a New Professional Role -- Uses and Abuses of the Polygraph -- Section III Clinical Applications of Basic Research -- Introduction—Health Care: Good Intentions Are Not Enough -- The Consequences of Prematurity: Understanding and Therapy -- Early Visual Experience in Humans: Evidence for a Critical Period in the Development of Binocular Vision -- The Production and Perception of Speech by a Misarticulating Child -- Clinical Applications of Biofeedback: Current Status and Future Prospects -- Section IV Application of Psychophysics and Human Performance Information -- Maneuvering the Mammoth -- Applications of Signal Detection Theory -- Subjective Effort in Relation to Physical Performance and Working Capacity -- A Psychophysical Contribution to Air Safety: Simulator Studies of Visual Illusions in Night Visual Approaches.

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Intro -- Cross-Cultural Family Research and Practice -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the editors -- A Personal Tribute to Fons van de Vijver (1952-2019) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 An introduction to families and culture: Research and practice -- Family forms and functions -- Influences on family -- Family interventions -- References -- Part 2 Essential forms and functions of families -- Chapter 2 Human child-rearing and family from an evolutionary perspective -- The evolution of human parenting -- Evolved mechanisms for investing in children (and getting investment from parents) -- Parents' evolved psychological mechanisms -- Children's evolved psychological mechanisms -- Childhood and parenting in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness -- Developmental plasticity and variability in child-rearing practices in evolutionary perspective -- The importance of developmental plasticity -- How variable are human family and child-rearing practices? -- Explaining patterns of individual differences in child-rearing practices between and within cultures: Life history theory -- Life history strategies in gerontocracies versus neontocracies -- Life history strategies for explaining individual differences in developed societies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Convergence and difference: Marriage and family life from a cross-cultural perspective -- Global explanations for cross-national differences in marriage -- World society theory -- Developmental idealism in family research -- Family systems theory -- The second demographic transition -- Gender systems and the gender revolution? -- The prevalence of marriage -- The timing of marriage in the life course -- The practice of child marriage -- Arranged marriages and the role of love in marriage: Change and continuity.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Bringing urban biodiversity research into practice / Jari Niemela -- 2.Soil as a foundation to urban biodiversity / Richard Pouyat -- 3.Urban biodiversity and ecosystem services / Erik Gomez-Baggethun -- 4.Planning for protection: promoting pest suppressing urban landscapes through habitat management / Caragh G. Threlfall -- 5.Urban agriculture: an opportunity for biodiversity and food provision in urban landscapes / Monika H. Egerer -- 6.Urban biological invasions: when vertebrates come to town / Adriano Martinoli -- 7.Management of plant diversity in urban green spaces / Clara C. Pregitzer -- 8.Managing biodiversity through social values and preferences / Dave Kendal -- 9.Biodiversity and psychological well-being / Eleanor Ratcliffe -- 10.Governance perspectives on urban biodiversity / Sara Borgstrom -- 11.Managing urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation: an African perspective / Elandrie Davoren

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface: Looking through the Systemic Lens -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Family Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice -- Chapter 1. What Is Family Psychology? -- Defining Family Psychology -- The "Praxis" of Family Psychology -- Becoming a Family Psychologist -- Conclusions: What Is Next? -- Chapter 2. The Systemic Epistemology of Family Psychology -- Revolution and Evolution: From the Individual to the System -- Systems Epistemology: The Core of Family Psychology -- Structures and Processes of Relational Systems -- Every System Is More Than the Sum of the Parts -- Importance of Context: The Place of Culture and Diversity in Systemic Thinking -- Unifying Threads of Family Psychology -- Conclusions: What Is Next? -- Chapter 3. Through the Systemic Lens: Families, Problems, and Change -- The Role of Theories -- The Pioneering Theories of Family Psychology -- Relational Family Systems: Systemic Perspectives on Families' Relational Systems -- A Systemic View of Clinical Problems -- Conclusions: What Is Next? -- Chapter 4. The Scientific Foundations of Family Psychology -- Science and the Scientific Method -- Domains of Family Psychology Research -- Types of Family Psychology Research -- What Is Good Family Psychology Research? -- What Do We Know about What We Do? -- Support for the Epistemological Perspective -- Do Family Psychology Clinical Interventions Work? -- Being a Scientist-Practitioner-Based Family Psychologist -- The Research-Practice Dialectic -- Conclusions: What Is Next? -- Section II: The Clinical Practice of Family Psychology -- Chapter 5. Mapping the Territory of Clinical Practice -- Mapping the Territory of Therapeutic Change in Family Psychology -- Clinical Interventions in Family Psychology -- Process of Change -- Conclusions and What Is Next?.

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