How Children DevelopIn its first edition, this highly anticipated textbook for the topically-organized child development course provided a fresh, non-encyclopedic approach, offering the latest, straight-from-the-research understanding of child development without overwhelming the student with inessential detail. The new edition brings those hallmark features forward, again providing a thoroughly contemporary, streamlined introduction to the study of child development that emphasizes fundamental principles, enduring themes, and important recent studies. Student-friendly pedagogy, a new chapter on gender, and an enhanced media and supplements package further enrich this accessible, engaging, and informative text. |
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Contents
An Introduction to Child Development | 2 |
Ways Is It Discontinuous? | 13 |
Prenatal Development and the Newborn Period | 40 |
Pent Maril Developmental Processes | 47 |
Fetal Experience | 55 |
The Newborn Infant | 70 |
Biology and Behavior | 82 |
Brain Development | 102 |
Individual Differences in Emotion and Its Regulation | 391 |
Culture and Childrens Emotional Development | 402 |
Chapter Summary | 410 |
Attachment to Others and Development of Self | 412 |
The Family | 452 |
13 | 458 |
Homelessness | 467 |
Peer Relationships | 492 |
Chapter Summary | 124 |
Theories of Cognitive Development | 126 |
Piagets Theory | 130 |
5 | 132 |
Educational Applications of InformationProcessing Theories | 153 |
View of Childrens Nature | 161 |
Seeing Thinking and Doing in Infancy | 168 |
Review | 184 |
Learning | 194 |
Chapter Summary | 208 |
Development of Language and Symbol | 210 |
7 | 218 |
Chapter Summary | 252 |
Conceptual Development | 254 |
Time | 280 |
Chapter Summary | 290 |
Intelligence and Academic Achievement | 292 |
9 | 298 |
IQ Scores as Predictors of Important Outcomes | 302 |
Alternative Perspectives on Intelligence | 314 |
Theories of Social Development | 332 |
Theories of Social Cognition | 350 |
10 | 351 |
Emotional Development | 372 |
11 | 381 |
14 | 499 |
Peers in Groups | 508 |
Chapter Summary | 528 |
15 | 534 |
Review | 544 |
Chapter Summary | 568 |
Review | 576 |
Gender Comparisons | 589 |
Conclusions | 604 |
Conclusions | 608 |
Children Play Active Roles in Their Own Development | 610 |
Mechanisms of Developmental Change | 616 |
The Sociocultural Context Shapes Development | 621 |
ChildDevelopment Research Can Improve Childrens Lives | 628 |
Glossary | 1 |
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492 | 49 |
References | 51 |
372 | 68 |
387 | 75 |
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How Children Develop Robert S. Siegler,Judy Deloache,Nancy Eisenberg,Patricia A. Miller No preview available - 2007 |
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