Carol Brown is a lecturer in psychology at Oxford College of Further Education

The Basics of Developmental Psychology
Course Companion to the Curriculum
Study and Revision Skills

Developmental Psychology provides student readers with essential help in all aspects of their first course in developmental psychology, including advice on revising exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course requirements on a developmental psychology course.

This Course Companion is designed to augment, rather than replace, existing textbooks for the course, and will provide:

- Helpful summaries of the course curriculum to aid lecture notes, seminars and written assignments

- Key summaries of the approach taken by the main developmental psychology textbooks

- Guidance on the essential study skills required

- Help with developing critical thinking

- Route-maps to aid the development of wider learning above and beyond textbooks

- Pointers to success in course exams

- A tutor's-eye view of what course examiners are looking for

- An insider's view of what key course concepts are really all about