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