The World of Children
Published on 14. February 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
688 pages
978-0-205-44743-5 (ISBN)
Description
For the undergraduate child development course taught chronologically.
The World of Children is a new chronological child development textbook by Joan Littlefield Cook and Greg Cook that helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. This exciting new text features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges, and encourages them to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives.
The World of Children demonstrates the practical applications of child development through interviews with a diverse group of real parents (A Personal Perspective) and a variety of professionals (A Professional Perspective) who rely upon child development information in their jobs. Each chapter also spotlights the ways programs, laws, regulations, and other governing aspects of society can affect children (A Social Policy Perspective).
The World of Children is a new chronological child development textbook by Joan Littlefield Cook and Greg Cook that helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. This exciting new text features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges, and encourages them to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives.
The World of Children demonstrates the practical applications of child development through interviews with a diverse group of real parents (A Personal Perspective) and a variety of professionals (A Professional Perspective) who rely upon child development information in their jobs. Each chapter also spotlights the ways programs, laws, regulations, and other governing aspects of society can affect children (A Social Policy Perspective).
Reviews / Votes
"This text is beautifully written and engaging. It is not pedantic and it maintains student interest. In particular, "Your Perspective Notes" and the vignettes are inspiring." Lila Snow, Los Angeles Pierce College"I was impressed with the writing style and accessibility to community college students. While still maintaining rigor, the writing was easy to read/digest." Amy Obegi, Grossmont College
"The implementation of critical thinking is quite excellent in this text. Most of that seems to be induced by the pedagogical tools used by the authors, particularly the `Think Back Notes,' `As You Study,' and the Perspective and Social Policy tools that the authors have introduced." Mark P. Rittman, Cuyahoga Community College
"There is a serious attempt to engage the students in thinking beyond the cursory presentation of developmental issues." David P. Hurford, Pittsburg State University
"I found the amount of research to be solid and with well-documented studies that were explained effectively." Judith M. Geary, University of Michigan, Dearborn
"I like the positive approach used with discussing ethnic and cultural differences." Steven A. Dennis, Brigham Young University, Idaho
"The Professional Perspective Boxes are a creative way of introducing careers in the field. I have never seen this used in a textbook and I like it." Marcie Coulter-Kern, Manchester College
"The Social Policy Boxes are a good idea, and help students understand how the information they are learning affects public policy." Michelle M. Englund, University of Minnesota
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Width: 276 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
1327 gr
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978-0-205-44743-5 (9780205447435)
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Persons
Joan Littlefield Cook teaches in the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. As an undergraduate she majored in Psychology at Tennessee Technological University. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. Over the last 18 years she has taught courses related to child and adolescent development, educational psychology, and cognitive psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Middle Tennessee State University. Her classes have ranged from large lecture courses (with 300 or more students) to small seminars. Students have always appreciated her knowledge of the field and her ability to present information in a way that is useful, motivating, and friendly. In fact, the Student Association at the University of Wisconsin-Madison voted her as one of their most outstanding professors. Joan's research is on mathematical problem solving and cognitive development. She and her colleagues have published papers in the Journal of Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Cognition & Instruction, Memory & Cognition, the Gifted Child Quarterly, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology. She has co-authored two other books and numerous instructional materials.
Greg Cook also teaches Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He majored in Psychology at the University of Dayton and later received his Ph.D. in Psychology at Vanderbilt University. For the last 18 years he has taught courses in child development, research methods, statistics, and related topics at Whitewater as well as at the Madison and Richland Center campuses in the University of Wisconsin system and Vanderbilt University. At Whitewater, he received a departmental award for excellence in teaching. Students consistently comment on his ability to present difficult information in a clear and understandable way. His research in cognitive development ahs been published in scholarly journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He also collaborated with colleagues in the College of Education on studies published in the Journal of Experimental Education, theJournal of Research & Development in Education, and the Journal of Reading Education.
Greg Cook also teaches Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He majored in Psychology at the University of Dayton and later received his Ph.D. in Psychology at Vanderbilt University. For the last 18 years he has taught courses in child development, research methods, statistics, and related topics at Whitewater as well as at the Madison and Richland Center campuses in the University of Wisconsin system and Vanderbilt University. At Whitewater, he received a departmental award for excellence in teaching. Students consistently comment on his ability to present difficult information in a clear and understandable way. His research in cognitive development ahs been published in scholarly journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He also collaborated with colleagues in the College of Education on studies published in the Journal of Experimental Education, theJournal of Research & Development in Education, and the Journal of Reading Education.
Content
Cook/Cook - The World of Children 1/e
Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Exploring Child Development
Defining the Field
What Develops?
What Drives Development? Nature and Nurture
Theories About Child Development
What is Theory, and Why Are Theories Useful?
Psychoanalytic Theories
Behavioral and Social Learning Theories
Cognitive Psychology
Biological Theories
System Theories
Using the Scientific Method: Research in Child Development
Descriptive Research Methods
Correlation Research Methods: Measuring Associations
Experiments: Determining Cause and Effect
Methods for Assessing Development
Ethics in Research with Children
Applications of Child Development Research and Careers Related to Children
Practical Applications of Child Development Research
? A Personal Perspective... Meet First-Time Parents
? Social Policy Perspective... Every Day in America
Careers Related to Children
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Child Social Worker
Thinking Back to Jennifer
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2
Heredity and the Environment
Genes and Human Reproduction
Genes and the Magical Four-Letter Code
? Social Policy Perspective... Protecting the Genetic Privacy of Citizens
Human Reproduction and Cell Division
? A Personal Perspective... Using Artificial Insemination
How Traits and Genetic Abnormalities are Inherited
Dominant-Recessive Traits
Chromosome Abnormalities
Prenatal Screening and Genetic Testing
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Genetic Counselor
How Genes and Environments Interact
Range of Reaction
Canalization
Niche-Picking: I Gotta Be Me...
Probabilistic Epigenesis: Activating Your Genes
Behavior Genetics: Measuring the Heritability of Traits
Behavior Genetics, Heritability, and Shared and Nonshared Environments
How is Heritability Estimated?
Heritability of Complex Characteristics
Thinking Back to Daniel and Teri
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 3
Prenatal Development and Birth
Prenatal Development
Conception
Stages of Prenatal Development
Teratogens: Health Risks for the Baby
Alcohol
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a family who adopted a child with FAS
Cocaine
Cigarette Smoking
? Social Policy Perspective... The Case of Malissa Ann Crawley
Maternal Health
Maternal Age
Critical Periods
The Role of Fathers
The Process of Birth
Stages of Birth
Birthing Complications: Something Isn't Right
The Newborn Baby
Becoming a Family: Psychological Adjustments to Having a Newborn
Options in Giving Birth: Choices and Alternatives
Approaches to Labor and Delivery
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Certified Nurse-Midwife
Drugs during Labor and Delivery
The Partner's Role: Helping during Birth
Thinking Back to Kendra and James...
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 2 Infants and Toddlers: The First Years (Birth to 3 years)
Chapter 4
Physical Development in Infants and Toddlers
Infants at Risk: Prematurity and Infant Mortality
What is Prematurity?
? A Personal Perspective... Meet the Parents of a Very Premature Baby
Infant Mortality
Having a Healthy Baby
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Feeding and Nutrition
Structure of the Brain and Nervous System
Forming the Brain and Nervous System
? Social Policy Perspective... Can Mozart Stimulate Neural Connections in Infants?
Motor Development
Reflexes: The Infant's First Coordinated Movements
Voluntary Movements: The Motor Milestones
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Physical Therapist
Cultural Differences in Early Experience
Toilet Training
Thinking Back to Beverly
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 5
Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
Perceptual Development
Robert Fantz and the Early Work Testing Visual Preferences
Habituation-Dishabituation Research
? Social Policy Perspective... Assessing Infant Intelligence: A Good Idea?
Basic Components of Seeing: Acuity, Color, and Depth
Auditory Perception: What Do Infants Hear?
Perception of Smell and Taste
Intermodal Perception: Putting it All Together
Explaining Cognitive Development: Piaget's Constructivist View
Piaget as a Child Prodigy
Constructivism and Interaction with the Environment
Piaget's Stage 1: Sensorimotor Thought (Birth to 2 Years)
? A Personal Perspective... Where Did It Go?
Learning to Communicate
What is Language?
Learning Theory: Language as a Learned Skill
Nativist Theory: Born to Talk
Interaction Theories: Cognitive and Social Interactionist Approaches
Infant Communication: How Language Starts
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Speech-Language Pathologist
Thinking Back to Diana and Jamie
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 6
Socioemotional Development in Infants and Toddlers
Attachment
The Story of Attachment Research
Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation
Parent, Infant, and Cultural Factors in Attachment
Fathers, Day care, and Attachment
? Social Policy Perspective... Parental Leave Policies in the United States and Other Nations
Early Attachment and Long-Term Outcomes
Other Measures of Attachment
Temperament
Types of Temperaments
? A Personal Perspective... Meet the Parent of a Difficult Child
Other Approaches to Temperament
Emotion
Infant Responses to Emotions
Toddler Self-Conscious Emotions
Social Relations and Play
Infant Social Interactions
Infant Sensorimotor Play
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Toy Company Executive
Toddler Friends
Toddler Conflicts
Toddler Symbolic Play
Thinking Back to Erin and Patrick
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 3 Early Childhood: The Playful Years (3 to 7 years)
Chapter 7
Physical Development in Early Childhood
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Nutrition
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Family Nutrition Counselor
Growth and Development of the Brain
The Role of Experience in Brain Development
Larger Development Patterns in the Brain
Motor Development and Physical Activity
Gross Motor Development
Fine Motor Development
Physical Activity and Exercise
Cerebral Palsy
? A Personal Perspective... Living with Cerebral Palsy
Health and Safety Issues
Child Deaths and Safety Issues
Child Maltreatment: Abuse and Neglect
Effects of Abuse and Neglect
? Social Policy Perspective... Protecting Children from Neglect
Thinking Back to Tammi and her neighbors
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 8
Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Piaget's Stage 2: Preoperational Thought
Flourishing Mental Representations
Emergence of Intuitive Thought: "It Seems Like..."
Conservation Problems
Piaget's Legacy
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Constructivist Teacher
Vygotsky's Sociocultural View of Cognitive Development
Vygotsky's Background: The Sociocultural Context for a New Theory
The Role of Speech and Language
Meditation: With a Little Help from Your Friends
The Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding and Collaborative Learning
Information Processing
What is the Information-Processing Approach?
The Development of Basic Cognitive Processes
Metacognition and the Child's Developing Theory of Mind
Language Development
An Expanding Vocabulary
Learning Grammar
Learning the Social Rules of Discourse
Bilingualism: Learning Two Languages
? A Personal Perspective: Meet a Bilingual Family
Early Childhood Education and Kindergarten Readiness
Early Childhood Education
? Social Policy Perspective... Project Head Start: What Lies Ahead?
Kindergarten Readiness
Thinking Back to Maria
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 9
Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
The Social and Emotional Self
The Self
Self-Regulation
The Self and Emotions
Developing Ideas about Gender
Moral Development
Parenting
Dimensions of Parenting
Parenting Styles: The Do's and Don'ts of Raising Children
? Social Policy Perspective... Should Parents Have to be Licensed?
Discipline: Spare the Rod and Spare the Child?
Positive Discipline
? A Personal Perspective... Carrots or Sticks? Family Discipline at Different Ages
Friends and Play
Gender Segregation
Play
The Social Levels of Play: Parten's Classic Study
Sociodramatic Play
Cultural Differences in Play
Nonparental Child Care
Nonparental Child Care and its Effects
Child Care Quality
Thinking Back to Cassandra
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 4 Middle Childhood: The School Years (7 to 12 years)
Chapter 10
Physical Development in Middle Childhood
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Childhood Overweight
Growth and Maturation of the Brain
Motor Development and Physical Activity
Motor Development
Physical Activity
Organized Sports
Health and Safety Issues
Childhood Injury and Safety Issues
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Pediatrician
Sexual Abuse
? A Personal Perspective... On Survivor's Story
Children with Exceptional Needs
What is Developmental Psychopathology?
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Mental Retardation
Communication and Learning Disorders
Autism
Educating Children with Exceptional Needs
? Social Policy Perspective... IDEA: Free and Appropriate Education
Thinking Back to Clayton
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 11
Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Piaget's Stage 3: Concrete Operational Thought (7 to 11 years)
What is Concrete Operational Thinking?
Class Inclusion, Seriation and Transitive Inference Skills
Information Processing: Memory Development
Two Models of Memory: Stores and Networks
Working Memory
Long-term Memory
Other Characteristics of Memory Development
? Social Policy Perspective... Children's Eyewitness Testimony: The Truth, the Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth?
? A Professional Perspective...Meet a Child and Family Therapist
Information Processing: Knowledge, Strategies, and New Approaches
The Development of Knowledge and Strategies
Newer Approaches to Understanding Cognitive Development
Information Processing: Where Does it Stand?
Learning to Communicate
Experts in the Basics
Metalinguistic Awareness
Changes in How Language is Used
Connectionist Models of Language Development
Cognition in Context
Development of Mathematical Skills
Development of Reading Skills
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a Literacy Volunteer
Development of Writing
Thinking Back to Manny and Angelique
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 12
Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
The Social and Emotional Self
Self Evaluations
Emotional Development
Gender Differences
Moral and Prosocial Reasoning
Aggression, Conduct Problems, and Resilient Children
Families
Children and Divorce
Never-Married Households
Stepfamilies
Play, Friends, and Peer Popularity
Logical and Physical Skills in Play
Best Friends
? A Personal Perspective... We Are Best Friends
Peer Popularity
A Social Cognition Model of Peer Relations
Helping Rejected Children
Schools and the Media
Children's Beliefs and Teachers' Expectations about Schooling
Classroom Climate and Grouping Practices in Schools
? Social Policy Perspective... Bilingual Education in the Schools
Children and the Media
Children and Television
Video Games, Computers, and the Internet
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Marketing Executive
Thinking Back to Katie
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 5 Adolescence: the Transition toward Adulthood (12 years and beyond)
Chapter 13
Physical Development in Adolescence
Growth of the Body and Brain
Puberty
Early and Late Maturation
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a Young Adolescent
Brain Development
Sexual Activity During Adolescence
Patterns of Sexual Activity
Reasons for Becoming Sexually Active
Contraceptive Use in Adolescence
Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education
? Social Policy Perspective... The Sex-Education Debate in America
Special Concerns About Teenage Sexual Activity
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Adolescents
Teenage Pregnancy
Forced Sexual Behavior
Health Issues
Nutrition and Exercise
Eating Disorders
? A Professional Perspective... Meet an Eating Disorders Counselor
Adolescents Need More Sleep
Substance Use and Abuse
Depression
Causes of Death in Adolescence
Thinking Back to Marcus
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 14
Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Piaget's Stage 4: Formal Operational Though (12 years and above)
What is Formal Operational Thought?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Evaluating Piaget's Theory
Piaget's Legacy
Recent Sociocultural Views
Situated Cognition
Guided Participation and Communities of Practice
Socially Shared Cognition
Intelligence
Theories of Intelligence
Assessing Intelligence
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a School Psychologist
Extremes of Intelligence: Mental Retardation and Giftedness
Ethnic Differences in Intelligence
? Social Policy Perspective... Ethnicity and IQ
Learning to Communicate: Language in Adolescence
The Adolescent Register
Genderlect
Social and Cultural Dialects
Cognition in Context: Adolescents Making Decisions
How Well do Adolescents Make Decisions?
Making Vocational Choices
The Forgotten Third: Improving the Transition from School to Work
? A Personal Perspective: I Graduated - Now What?
Thinking Back to Maya
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 15
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
Who Am I? Adolescents' Understanding of Themselves
Identity
? A Personal Perspective... Developing an Ethnic Identity
Sexual Orientation
Morality
Social Relationships: Family
Teens Developing Autonomy: Conflict with Parents
Family Structures
Social Relationships: Peers
Friends and Peers in Adolescence
Cliques and Crowds
Peer Pressure, Delinquent Behavior, and Aggression
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Juvenile Probation Officer
? Social Policy Perspective... How Should We Deal With Aggressive Students?
From Gender Segregation to Dating
Leisure Time in Adolescence
Contexts of Development
Adolescents in School
Cultural Contexts for Development
Thinking Back to Rashon
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Detailed Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Exploring Child Development
Defining the Field
What Develops?
What Drives Development? Nature and Nurture
Theories About Child Development
What is Theory, and Why Are Theories Useful?
Psychoanalytic Theories
Behavioral and Social Learning Theories
Cognitive Psychology
Biological Theories
System Theories
Using the Scientific Method: Research in Child Development
Descriptive Research Methods
Correlation Research Methods: Measuring Associations
Experiments: Determining Cause and Effect
Methods for Assessing Development
Ethics in Research with Children
Applications of Child Development Research and Careers Related to Children
Practical Applications of Child Development Research
? A Personal Perspective... Meet First-Time Parents
? Social Policy Perspective... Every Day in America
Careers Related to Children
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Child Social Worker
Thinking Back to Jennifer
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2
Heredity and the Environment
Genes and Human Reproduction
Genes and the Magical Four-Letter Code
? Social Policy Perspective... Protecting the Genetic Privacy of Citizens
Human Reproduction and Cell Division
? A Personal Perspective... Using Artificial Insemination
How Traits and Genetic Abnormalities are Inherited
Dominant-Recessive Traits
Chromosome Abnormalities
Prenatal Screening and Genetic Testing
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Genetic Counselor
How Genes and Environments Interact
Range of Reaction
Canalization
Niche-Picking: I Gotta Be Me...
Probabilistic Epigenesis: Activating Your Genes
Behavior Genetics: Measuring the Heritability of Traits
Behavior Genetics, Heritability, and Shared and Nonshared Environments
How is Heritability Estimated?
Heritability of Complex Characteristics
Thinking Back to Daniel and Teri
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 3
Prenatal Development and Birth
Prenatal Development
Conception
Stages of Prenatal Development
Teratogens: Health Risks for the Baby
Alcohol
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a family who adopted a child with FAS
Cocaine
Cigarette Smoking
? Social Policy Perspective... The Case of Malissa Ann Crawley
Maternal Health
Maternal Age
Critical Periods
The Role of Fathers
The Process of Birth
Stages of Birth
Birthing Complications: Something Isn't Right
The Newborn Baby
Becoming a Family: Psychological Adjustments to Having a Newborn
Options in Giving Birth: Choices and Alternatives
Approaches to Labor and Delivery
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Certified Nurse-Midwife
Drugs during Labor and Delivery
The Partner's Role: Helping during Birth
Thinking Back to Kendra and James...
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 2 Infants and Toddlers: The First Years (Birth to 3 years)
Chapter 4
Physical Development in Infants and Toddlers
Infants at Risk: Prematurity and Infant Mortality
What is Prematurity?
? A Personal Perspective... Meet the Parents of a Very Premature Baby
Infant Mortality
Having a Healthy Baby
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Feeding and Nutrition
Structure of the Brain and Nervous System
Forming the Brain and Nervous System
? Social Policy Perspective... Can Mozart Stimulate Neural Connections in Infants?
Motor Development
Reflexes: The Infant's First Coordinated Movements
Voluntary Movements: The Motor Milestones
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Physical Therapist
Cultural Differences in Early Experience
Toilet Training
Thinking Back to Beverly
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 5
Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
Perceptual Development
Robert Fantz and the Early Work Testing Visual Preferences
Habituation-Dishabituation Research
? Social Policy Perspective... Assessing Infant Intelligence: A Good Idea?
Basic Components of Seeing: Acuity, Color, and Depth
Auditory Perception: What Do Infants Hear?
Perception of Smell and Taste
Intermodal Perception: Putting it All Together
Explaining Cognitive Development: Piaget's Constructivist View
Piaget as a Child Prodigy
Constructivism and Interaction with the Environment
Piaget's Stage 1: Sensorimotor Thought (Birth to 2 Years)
? A Personal Perspective... Where Did It Go?
Learning to Communicate
What is Language?
Learning Theory: Language as a Learned Skill
Nativist Theory: Born to Talk
Interaction Theories: Cognitive and Social Interactionist Approaches
Infant Communication: How Language Starts
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Speech-Language Pathologist
Thinking Back to Diana and Jamie
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 6
Socioemotional Development in Infants and Toddlers
Attachment
The Story of Attachment Research
Mary Ainsworth and the Strange Situation
Parent, Infant, and Cultural Factors in Attachment
Fathers, Day care, and Attachment
? Social Policy Perspective... Parental Leave Policies in the United States and Other Nations
Early Attachment and Long-Term Outcomes
Other Measures of Attachment
Temperament
Types of Temperaments
? A Personal Perspective... Meet the Parent of a Difficult Child
Other Approaches to Temperament
Emotion
Infant Responses to Emotions
Toddler Self-Conscious Emotions
Social Relations and Play
Infant Social Interactions
Infant Sensorimotor Play
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Toy Company Executive
Toddler Friends
Toddler Conflicts
Toddler Symbolic Play
Thinking Back to Erin and Patrick
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 3 Early Childhood: The Playful Years (3 to 7 years)
Chapter 7
Physical Development in Early Childhood
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Nutrition
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Family Nutrition Counselor
Growth and Development of the Brain
The Role of Experience in Brain Development
Larger Development Patterns in the Brain
Motor Development and Physical Activity
Gross Motor Development
Fine Motor Development
Physical Activity and Exercise
Cerebral Palsy
? A Personal Perspective... Living with Cerebral Palsy
Health and Safety Issues
Child Deaths and Safety Issues
Child Maltreatment: Abuse and Neglect
Effects of Abuse and Neglect
? Social Policy Perspective... Protecting Children from Neglect
Thinking Back to Tammi and her neighbors
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 8
Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
Piaget's Stage 2: Preoperational Thought
Flourishing Mental Representations
Emergence of Intuitive Thought: "It Seems Like..."
Conservation Problems
Piaget's Legacy
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Constructivist Teacher
Vygotsky's Sociocultural View of Cognitive Development
Vygotsky's Background: The Sociocultural Context for a New Theory
The Role of Speech and Language
Meditation: With a Little Help from Your Friends
The Zone of Proximal Development
Scaffolding and Collaborative Learning
Information Processing
What is the Information-Processing Approach?
The Development of Basic Cognitive Processes
Metacognition and the Child's Developing Theory of Mind
Language Development
An Expanding Vocabulary
Learning Grammar
Learning the Social Rules of Discourse
Bilingualism: Learning Two Languages
? A Personal Perspective: Meet a Bilingual Family
Early Childhood Education and Kindergarten Readiness
Early Childhood Education
? Social Policy Perspective... Project Head Start: What Lies Ahead?
Kindergarten Readiness
Thinking Back to Maria
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 9
Socioemotional Development in Early Childhood
The Social and Emotional Self
The Self
Self-Regulation
The Self and Emotions
Developing Ideas about Gender
Moral Development
Parenting
Dimensions of Parenting
Parenting Styles: The Do's and Don'ts of Raising Children
? Social Policy Perspective... Should Parents Have to be Licensed?
Discipline: Spare the Rod and Spare the Child?
Positive Discipline
? A Personal Perspective... Carrots or Sticks? Family Discipline at Different Ages
Friends and Play
Gender Segregation
Play
The Social Levels of Play: Parten's Classic Study
Sociodramatic Play
Cultural Differences in Play
Nonparental Child Care
Nonparental Child Care and its Effects
Child Care Quality
Thinking Back to Cassandra
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 4 Middle Childhood: The School Years (7 to 12 years)
Chapter 10
Physical Development in Middle Childhood
Growth of the Body and Brain
Physical Growth
Childhood Overweight
Growth and Maturation of the Brain
Motor Development and Physical Activity
Motor Development
Physical Activity
Organized Sports
Health and Safety Issues
Childhood Injury and Safety Issues
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Pediatrician
Sexual Abuse
? A Personal Perspective... On Survivor's Story
Children with Exceptional Needs
What is Developmental Psychopathology?
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Mental Retardation
Communication and Learning Disorders
Autism
Educating Children with Exceptional Needs
? Social Policy Perspective... IDEA: Free and Appropriate Education
Thinking Back to Clayton
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 11
Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
Piaget's Stage 3: Concrete Operational Thought (7 to 11 years)
What is Concrete Operational Thinking?
Class Inclusion, Seriation and Transitive Inference Skills
Information Processing: Memory Development
Two Models of Memory: Stores and Networks
Working Memory
Long-term Memory
Other Characteristics of Memory Development
? Social Policy Perspective... Children's Eyewitness Testimony: The Truth, the Whole Truth, And Nothing but the Truth?
? A Professional Perspective...Meet a Child and Family Therapist
Information Processing: Knowledge, Strategies, and New Approaches
The Development of Knowledge and Strategies
Newer Approaches to Understanding Cognitive Development
Information Processing: Where Does it Stand?
Learning to Communicate
Experts in the Basics
Metalinguistic Awareness
Changes in How Language is Used
Connectionist Models of Language Development
Cognition in Context
Development of Mathematical Skills
Development of Reading Skills
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a Literacy Volunteer
Development of Writing
Thinking Back to Manny and Angelique
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 12
Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
The Social and Emotional Self
Self Evaluations
Emotional Development
Gender Differences
Moral and Prosocial Reasoning
Aggression, Conduct Problems, and Resilient Children
Families
Children and Divorce
Never-Married Households
Stepfamilies
Play, Friends, and Peer Popularity
Logical and Physical Skills in Play
Best Friends
? A Personal Perspective... We Are Best Friends
Peer Popularity
A Social Cognition Model of Peer Relations
Helping Rejected Children
Schools and the Media
Children's Beliefs and Teachers' Expectations about Schooling
Classroom Climate and Grouping Practices in Schools
? Social Policy Perspective... Bilingual Education in the Schools
Children and the Media
Children and Television
Video Games, Computers, and the Internet
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Marketing Executive
Thinking Back to Katie
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Part 5 Adolescence: the Transition toward Adulthood (12 years and beyond)
Chapter 13
Physical Development in Adolescence
Growth of the Body and Brain
Puberty
Early and Late Maturation
? A Personal Perspective... Meet a Young Adolescent
Brain Development
Sexual Activity During Adolescence
Patterns of Sexual Activity
Reasons for Becoming Sexually Active
Contraceptive Use in Adolescence
Sexual Knowledge and Sex Education
? Social Policy Perspective... The Sex-Education Debate in America
Special Concerns About Teenage Sexual Activity
Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Adolescents
Teenage Pregnancy
Forced Sexual Behavior
Health Issues
Nutrition and Exercise
Eating Disorders
? A Professional Perspective... Meet an Eating Disorders Counselor
Adolescents Need More Sleep
Substance Use and Abuse
Depression
Causes of Death in Adolescence
Thinking Back to Marcus
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 14
Cognitive Development in Adolescence
Piaget's Stage 4: Formal Operational Though (12 years and above)
What is Formal Operational Thought?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Evaluating Piaget's Theory
Piaget's Legacy
Recent Sociocultural Views
Situated Cognition
Guided Participation and Communities of Practice
Socially Shared Cognition
Intelligence
Theories of Intelligence
Assessing Intelligence
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a School Psychologist
Extremes of Intelligence: Mental Retardation and Giftedness
Ethnic Differences in Intelligence
? Social Policy Perspective... Ethnicity and IQ
Learning to Communicate: Language in Adolescence
The Adolescent Register
Genderlect
Social and Cultural Dialects
Cognition in Context: Adolescents Making Decisions
How Well do Adolescents Make Decisions?
Making Vocational Choices
The Forgotten Third: Improving the Transition from School to Work
? A Personal Perspective: I Graduated - Now What?
Thinking Back to Maya
Chapter Review
Key Terms
Chapter 15
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
Who Am I? Adolescents' Understanding of Themselves
Identity
? A Personal Perspective... Developing an Ethnic Identity
Sexual Orientation
Morality
Social Relationships: Family
Teens Developing Autonomy: Conflict with Parents
Family Structures
Social Relationships: Peers
Friends and Peers in Adolescence
Cliques and Crowds
Peer Pressure, Delinquent Behavior, and Aggression
? A Professional Perspective... Meet a Juvenile Probation Officer
? Social Policy Perspective... How Should We Deal With Aggressive Students?
From Gender Segregation to Dating
Leisure Time in Adolescence
Contexts of Development
Adolescents in School
Cultural Contexts for Development
Thinking Back to Rashon
Chapter Review
Key Terms