
The Development of Children
by Lightfoot, Cynthia; Cole, Michael; Cole, Sheila R.Buy Used
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
The Study of Human Development | |
Developmental Science Children, Society, and Science | |
The Central Issues of Developmental Science | |
Theories of Development Methods for Studying | |
Development Looking Ahead | |
Box: High-Tech Research on Brain Function | |
Box: Understanding the Causes and Correlations of Children’s Behavior and Development | |
In the Field | |
Probing the Mysteries of Learning | |
Part I | |
Biocultural Foundations | |
Inheriting Culture Biological Inheritance | |
The Coevolution of Culture and Biology Retracing the Laetoli Footsteps | |
In the Field: Doctor of Plain People | |
Box: Genetic Counseling | |
Prenatal Development and Birth | |
Periods of Prenatal Development | |
Environmental Conditions and Prenatal Development Teratogens | |
Environmental Sources of Birth Defects Birth | |
The Newborn's Condition Beginning the Parent–Child Relationship | |
In the Field: Reclaiming Birth—Midwifery in the Inuit Villages of Northern Canada | |
Infancy | |
The First Three Months | |
Physical Growth | |
Brain Development Sensing the Environment | |
The Organization of Behavior Temperament | |
Becoming Coordinated with the Social World Summing Up the First 3 Months | |
In the Field: Baby-Friendly Hospitals | |
Box: Sleeping Arrangements | |
Box: Sudden Infant Death | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in the First Two Years | |
Physical Growth | |
Brain Development | |
Motor Development | |
Cognitive Development | |
The Great Debate Sensorimotor Development | |
Conceptual Development | |
The Growth of Attention and Memory Summary and Implications | |
Box: Brainy Babies | |
In the Field: The Diaper-Free Movement | |
Emotional and Social Development | |
During Infancy | |
The Nature of Infant Emotions and Emotional Expressions | |
The Infant–Caregiver Emotional Relationship | |
The Changing Nature of Communication | |
A Sense of Self Developing | |
Trust and Autonomy | |
Summary and Implications | |
Box: Attachment to Fathers | |
Box: Out-of-Home Care | |
A Threat to Attachment? | |
In the Field: Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder | |
Early Childhood | |
Language Acquisition | |
The Power of Language Keys to the World of Language | |
The Basic Domains of Language Acquisition | |
Explanations of Language Acquisition | |
Reconsidering the Keys of Language | |
Box: Children Creating a Language | |
Box: Bilingual Language Acquisition | |
In the Field: A Speech-Language Pathologist in Vietnam | |
Physical and Cognitive Development of Early Childhood | |
Physical and Motor Development Preoperational | |
Development Information-Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development | |
Cognitive Development in Privileged Domains | |
Cognitive Development and Culture Reconciling | |
Alternative Approaches | |
Box: Bearing Witness | |
Can Young Children Tell the Truth? | |
In the Field: Supporting Siblings of Children with Autism | |
Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood | |
Acquiring a Social and Personal Identity | |
A New Moral World Developing Self-Regulation | |
Understanding Aggression Developing Prosocial Behaviors | |
Taking One’s Place in the Social Group | |
In the Field: Coping with Illness | |
Box: Spanking | |
Contexts of Development | |
The Family Context | |
Nonparental Child Care | |
Neighborhoods and Communities Media Contexts | |
Contexts, Risks, and Resilience | |
Box: Fathers | |
In the Field: Swamp Nurse | |
Box: Children and War | |
Middle Childhood | |
Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood | |
Physical and Motor Development | |
Concrete Operational Development Information-Processing | |
Approaches to Cognitive Development | |
The Role of Social and Cultural Contexts | |
Individual Differences in Cognitive Development | |
Reconsidering the Cognitive Changes in Middle Childhood | |
In the Field: The Edible Schoolyard | |
Thinking Outside the Lunchbox | |
School as a Context for Development | |
The Co | |
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